Dear Editor,
I am writing about accidents on the dirt roads that take lives. I live on one of those dirt roads. A bunch of people will gather together and ride those dirt roads.
They make a ritual out of hollering, throwing their beer bottles and cans in the creeks, and all over these dirt roads. These ATVs, four wheelers, side by sides and golf carts are not legal on dirt roads as well as paved roads. That is why the intoxicated bunch of individuals took off after the recent accident that took a woman’s life. They were drunk as usual riding around from one dirt road to another. Now there had to be an accident to show how bad it has gotten on these dirt roads. At night, it has become a nightmare of these people riding all night. The sheriff knows of this and their party on wheels and will stop this. PLEASE! What is worse than the party on wheels is their children are being dropped off to ride all day on these dirt roads with no helmet or no supervision. An eight- or ten-year-old child does not have a driver’s license to ride or drive county-maintained roads. I asked one of the children where he was from, and he said “Gray.” I asked him why he was riding on my dirt road, and he stated, “no place to ride in Gray.” Why buy your child something to drive or ride and you do not own property to ride or drive on it? That does not make common sense. It is like buying butter and you don’t have anything to put it on. Like I said, no common sense. Oh yea, power lines and fire breaks are not opened to the public to ride on. That is still private land.
Sincerely, Mary Ann Smith A dirt road resident
