Just to add support to a recent letter (“Traffic carnage surprising?,” Our Readers’ Views, Dec. 30), what I have seen is truly scary. Yesterday, I was sitting at a red light at Padden Parkway and the southbound I-205 ramp headed east. I looked in my rear view and there was a red pickup truck accelerating. The truck zipped around me and plowed through the lane next to me then the intersection. No brake lights. No intention of stopping.
Last month, I was at a red light at Mill Plain Boulevard where northbound I-5 comes off headed west. A teal Toyota Corolla next to me just drove right through the intersection. No brake lights. No intention of stopping.
Vancouver police say there is nothing that can be done unless they see it themselves (with tickets/citations). If nothing is done and nothing can be done, the carnage has the potential to be deadly. What about red light cameras for those major intersections?
Yesterday, I’m just glad the red truck did not hit me and push me into the intersection where I could have been killed. Thank you angels for another day!
