Auntie Charo's Soapbox

On a quiet Sunday morning, a young man crosses a street in Mangilao and he's killed. All anyone knows is that a black or dark colored car hit and killed him and drove into the night never to be found. I'm not sure but think the young man may be from one of our neighbor islands. The lad probably doesn't know how to cross a street with more than two lanes, let alone seven, never mind that the speed limit is 55MPH and drivers usually run about 70MPH. If he was lucky, he didn't know what hit him.
Sunday morning, a woman in her forties coming or going to church tried to make a left turn on Marine Drive. She had a car full of Valentine Day crafts to be delivered that were strewn all over the multi-lane highway, one of her step-in shoes thrown a distance from where her body might have been thrown where a huge Pick up hit her broad side. It was a Sunday morning, for Pete's sake, what was the rush? For either driver...
As I write this, a young fellow is either dead or seriously fighting for his life at GMH as he tried at breakneck speed(he may have lost control of his vehicle) to make a left turn at Micro Mall) and hit a wall. The cops at the scene were talking as if the crash was a fatality, but I can't say for sure, only know that by the looks of that Sentra, the person behind that wheel was so seriously injured that he probably would not want to survive because he probably would be comatose for the duration of his life.
The hit and runs will happen whether or not there are median strips. The accident this afternoon happened where there are strips but not knowing where the accident happened, can't say that the crash could have been prevented, even if speed had been a factor. Unfortunately, median strips can't stop cars that are low flying objects.
The crash between the Tacoma and the sedan on Sunday happened in East Agana where there are no median strips. I think that if there had been a divider, there could not have been a left turn, therefore the possibility of two cars colliding could not have happened.
I'm all for median strips.....and can't for the life of me, figure out why we don't have them everywhere!!!!
How many more souls will our roads call for and take before we start to drive more carefully?