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Letter: Distracted Burnaby drivers keep whacking me. Enough

Editor: I recently read two articles that you wrote in the Burnaby NOW . The first one is the article on the vertigo driver and the latter is the distracted driver vs. speeding article .
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Cell phone addiction is behind some driver’s inability to stay away from the device while behind the wheel. Photo Dan Toulgoet

Editor:

I recently read two articles that you wrote in the Burnaby NOW. The first one is the article on the vertigo driver and the latter is the distracted driver vs. speeding article.
With respect to the first article, I’m concerned that there are people driving on the roads that can induce accidents. I’m shocked. 

As for speed and distracted drivers, I’m more irritated at distracted drivers. The reason being was an accident April 2017. The very young girl was on her cell phone and too distracted to see my brake lights on, but the weather was sunny so maybe she was texting that?

Since that time, I’ve had two more rear-enders. In each circumstance, my brake lights were on. In the latter accident, the driver was distracted by his son, and there was no reason for the second accident other than the driver didn’t leave enough room for the weather condition (it was pouring rain).

One of the things that your second article touched on was trucks. I use to have a job where I’d drive regularly out of the Lower Mainland - east of Langley - and on my way home, these same dump trucks would rip down the No 1 Highway without a care in the world. I’d be in the fast last going the same speed as the person in front of me and a dump truck would be less than 10 feet behind — and the traffic would slow down from time to time. 

The comments that you made in the article about the additional tickets. These dump trucks (not limited to dump trucks) are reckless and should have a slower speed on the highway. 

Stuart Main, Burnaby