I know I have discussed this topic in my KellyGram a time or two before, but I am really fed up with the way people drive in my hometown of Columbia, SC. They continue to come racing off I-126 down Huger Street like it is a freeway! The turn I make off Trenholm Road while driving home at night is extremely dangerous (drivers act like Trenholm Road, which is only two lanes, is another freeway!)

I cannot speak with as much authority as first responders or emergency room personnel, but I can speak from my perspective. I have handled auto accidents among other areas of practice for 44 years of my life and I have seen the damage caused by a speeding vehicle crashing into another or striking a pedestrian. These auto accidents are devastating to many, and fatal to others.

We recently began working on two cases right here in the Columbia area, where people were walking safely off the roadway, and drivers who were speeding and probably talking on their cell phones (we will find that out soon) veered off the roadway and struck the pedestrians. Two people were badly injured, and another person was killed. PLEASE SLOW DOWN! Getting to your destination a minute or two early is never worth the injury or loss of life which can occur.

If this week’s KellyGram causes one person of the thousands that read it to think twice, then it was certainly time well spent.