Drive carefully on the freeways, By-Pass and roads

There was a horrific accident this Tuesday afternoon on the Athens 10 Loop, otherwise known as the By-Pass or Paul Broun, Sr. Memorial Highway. My son's mother witnessed a gold SUV veer in and out of traffic, over correct and then flip several times before coming to rest on its nose. Needless to say, she was momentarily traumatized by watching such destruction and was grateful our son was not in the car to watch the crash. She was even more astonished that she could call 9-1-1 and the call was not answered! The area of the wreck was in the part of the Loop between 316 and 441 that is part Clarke and part Oconee, but still, perhaps the Emergency Response people were flooded by calls.

I hope whoever was in the accident survived, but it did not look promising from her almost tragically close viewpoint. The gold SUV was crumpled and mangled so badly that she could not even see if there was more than one person inside.

So please drive carefully out there. We have volunteer firemen in Oconee County and we need to thank them every day and will hopefully pay them sometime in the next decade. They are worth every penny.

For all the people who whine and complain about the supposed bloated size of local government, for goodness sakes, we don't even pay our fireman! Think about that in your next emergency