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  • Mark Wyatt
  • Wed February 05 2014
  • Posted Feb 5, 2014

According to a news release by the Taylor County attorney, bicyclist Gerald Williams of Lenox was struck by a vehicle driven by Jessica M. Brown and killed. The car was damaged bad enough that it couldn’t be driven. Brown reported that she thought she hit a deer. A day later, the body of Williams was found in the ditch.

Brown was convicted of failure to stop at an assured clear distance on Jan. 3. She was ordered to pay a fine of $500, a statutory surcharge of $175 and court costs in the amount of $60.

This is a weak punishment.

At about the time of the crash, the Iowa Department of Transportation announced a Vision Zero campaign. The goal is to reduce road fatalities to zero. Everyone who hears about this campaign says, “Is that realistic? Isn’t there an acceptable level of fatalities?” When asked how many traffic fatalities would be acceptable if it was a member of your family, the number is always zero.

We cannot reach zero fatalities without change. We need safer traffic facilities, we need penalties in our traffic code that bring change and we need society to stop the problem.

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