Editor – I’m hoping you can publish this letter in the Ladysmith Gazette.
Recently, the grades 1s at Little Egerton had their fun athletics day at the field. Upon walking home with our kids, I myself went up to ‘big’ Egerton with my Godchild to get her bag, while my mom and my daughter went over to Little Egerton to get my daughter’s school bag.
Upon walking back, my mom and daughter stopped at the pedestrian crossing and waited for the cars to stop. Eventually they did, although a lady driving a red Uno with FS number plates (she is from town, as I have seen her around before) proceeded to drive at one hell of a speed, almost knocking my daughter flying.
She then proceeded to shake her finger at my mom and daughter as if they were in the wrong. Really? I was already walking back and saw the whole incident.
To the lady driving that car, YOU make me sick. I wonder if you even have children or how you managed to get your licence. Thankfully nothing happened, but it could have ended much worse.
This intersection causes nothing but problems. Staying on the corner of Cochrane and Sinclair, I often see how the kids wait and wait and wait, and even when crossing, how the cars just continue. In a separate incident of Friday, the little grade RRs were walking over to go to a dog show and a truck just carried on driving, causing the teacher (known to me) to jump in front of the students to shield them.
It seems to me that because some people cannot drive or obey simple road signs, the Department of Transport should really consider putting up robots at that particular pedestrian crossing, and possibly speed bumps as well.
As a mom, I probably would have slapped that driver if I was close enough. Who does she think she is?