By GEORGE CUSTER/The Herald — The Oregon State Police are being kept extra busy this holiday week as there have been no less than three crashes along Highway 58, including a crash that resulted in a fatality this morning. Heavy rains and some fog have both reduced visibility and made the road surfaces treacherous for motorists. Use a slower speed than you might normally and be particularly observant of the traffic around you. It’s often “the other guy” that causes a crash that you may not be able to avoid being caught up in. There will still be a lot of large commercial vehicles on the highways trying to get their goods delivered so that they, also, can get home for the holidays. They are skilled professionals who drive for a living, so I’m not faulting their abilities. However, what they do is simply hazardous by nature.
Many of us were hoping for a white Christmas, myself included. However, with all that beautiful white stuff comes slick roads, reduced vision, black ice and other, not so charming consequences. Though we live in an otherwise temperate weather zone, devoid of the bone-chilling below zero temperatures and monsoon-like rains, we can become lulled into being lax in our attention to what Mother Nature may send our way. So, please, if you have to drive, be extra careful and stay alert.
George Custer lives in Oakridge with his wife Sayre. George is a former smokejumper from his hometown of Cave Junction, a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. and ran a construction company in Southern California. George assumed the volunteer duties as the Editor of the Highway 58 Herald in 2022. He loves riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, building all things wood, and playing drums on the weekends in his office.
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