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Lets take it easy on the roads out there.
It’s finally summertime and it’s hard at times to go to work when there are so many fun things to be doing in the great outdoors. But I covered a story today that reminds me that life is fragile, and too many it often ends in a crunched up pile of metal that was once a car or truck.
If you heard or read the story a motorist driving through Provo canyon today swerved out of his lane into an oncoming SUV. It was at the Bridal Veil falls outlook turnoff so there are not any barriers separating the lanes. The area is full of curvy roads that snake through the canyon and it was in one of these curves where the crash took place. The driver of the car that left his lane lost his life. A family of five was in the oncoming SUV and suffered minor injuries even though their vehicle flipped over.
At this point police don’t know what distracted the car driver and they likely never will, and they haven’t released if excessive speeds played a part. But too often people in the canyon are going way too fast and have a hard time staying in their lanes. Highway patrol troopers says it’s not a freeway, so don’t drive it like it is one. It seems almost daily we hear of crashes in one of our canyons.
So let’s get out and enjoy the outdoors, but let’s not be in such a hurry to get there. We’ve lost too many people on canyon roads already.
