To the editor:

My obituary was not in the Sunday paper.

Friday, I left my home on Wimbledon Drive and proceeded to Inverness, stopped, then turned south and stopped in the left-turn lane on the north side of Clinton Parkway. This busy intersection is controlled by traffic lights. The posted speed limit on Clinton Parkway is 45 mph, but many drivers exceed the speed limit between traffic lights by 5 to 10 mph.

I stopped in the left-turn lane on the north side of Clinton Parkway, and traffic was fairly heavy. The traffic signal changed and I had a green left-turn arrow. I looked both ways before releasing my foot from the brake and began to move onto Clinton Parkway.

My obituary was not in the Sunday paper.

I looked again in both directions and hit my brakes hard as a shiny new sports car, westbound on Clinton Parkway, went speeding through his red light.

My obituary was not in the Sunday paper because I looked both ways twice, when the traffic signal gave me the green left-turn arrow. Had I not looked both ways a second time after I had a green light, and been able to stop, the red-light speeder would have hit me broadside and my obituary would have been in the Sunday paper.

For the safety of everyone, the police should monitor these traffic-light controlled intersections to catch speeders and red-light runners on a regular basis.

Howard G. O’Connor,

Lawrence