And we're going to teach us some rules to the road today. Sit down and pay attention because
that's what this hour is because half hour is going to be like here. Got a couple of
good guests in the studio, Lieutenant Chuck Garand from the Racine County Sheriff's Office.
We also have Captain Kerry Magical. She is from the Racine County Sheriff's Office as
well. And also you are also what's really placed into this. You're a, oh, man, I can't
read my writing here. Safety coordinated. What is that? Highway Safety Coordinator.
Correct. If I could read them, that would have worked fine. I'm using my chicken scratch
here. And Tom Nitter from the Racine County Traffic Safety Commission is here. We're
going to talk about rules of the road. This is where I am like, people always say to me,
you just, you should be a cop of the road. That's what they tell me because I'm always
gripping about people who drive because I don't think anybody knows how to drive. And
they're always annoying me. I get annoyed very easily on the road. People who don't follow
the rules. Now I live on Main Street and it's 30 miles an hour. You'd never know it because
especially at night cars going at least 40, 45 miles an hour. And when they get to downtown
it's 25 miles an hour. Again, you'd never know it because they're pushing me out of the
way there. You know, getting my car off the road because they want to go 40 miles an
hour. They're late for somewhere. And I'm on time. I shouldn't have to speed because
you didn't get up early in the morning enough. That's not my fault. Okay. So enough with
me now. I need some therapy for that. So beside that. All right. Red lights. I see people
go right through that. They figure, oh, it's yellow, which means I was told in in driver's
head. Yellow means clear the intersection. That means slow down means clear the intersection.
We'll agree on that. Yes. That's true. Clear the intersection. If you're in it. So
you are correct. If you're in it, you have to clear the intersection. But if you're
approaching it and there's safe, there's time to do so and you can stop safely. It's
actually stopped for the yellow traffic signal. Right. If you, you know, it doesn't
mean hit the gas and get through it as quick as you can. What bothers me is when my light
turns green, there's always somebody still going through there because they, they don't
care. They say, well, it's just turned red. That's good enough. It's not good enough
to go through. And you can catch them now because there are cameras, right? I get those
red light cameras now. There are some areas that have. I want to catch them. How do we
catch them? That's what I want to catch those people. We put a cop at every intersection.
Let's do it. Let's do it. I'll pay for it. Okay. So it's clear the intersection. If
it's yellow, does mean hit the gas and get through there as quick as you can. You know,
I don't, I don't know if you guys remember this. And I don't know if it was where I grew
up. There was a city that had no yellow lights. It was red and green. And for yellow, the
red and the green would come on at the same time. And that was the same as yellow. Interesting.
And I don't, you guys remember those not lights? I don't remember. It was in parts of New
York City where they didn't have yellow lights. It was red and green. And when they both
came on, that was, that was the equivalent of yellow. And then they would turn, yeah,
that was the warning. But I can't believe anybody remembers it. I know it didn't dream it.
I know it was really true. Okay. So let's review exactly what's written here. Yellow.
When you see yellow light or following the green light, you should stop before entering
the intersection. Unless you're so close that a stop may not be safe. The safe yellow
light does not mean hit the, hit the gas, speed up and race through the intersection.
That's how people get killed. Another thing, if the guy behind you thinks he wants to go
through the yellow light and you stop, end of ender, because he's a, you know, is it?
Go keep going. You can't do that. People drive like, well, that's how body shops stay
in business. I mean, because you're always denting cars and so forth.
Well, you always have had to drive defensively. But I think even in today's world, it's
even more critical. You know what they say? The definition of a New York second is, and
I remember this, when the other person's light turns red, US is in green and you're
hitting the horn, even though your light is still red, start moving his lights red.
And believe me, I've been through that. People do it. Okay. You get a red light and traffic
facing a red signal must stop before entering the crosswalk or before entering the intersection
and must remain stopped until the light changes to green or some other signal permitting
movement, such as a green arrow. As simple as it is, people pass red lights all the time.
Now I understand, you know, maybe something would caught your attention. You weren't
paying attention for a second. And it happens once in your lifetime, you'll pass a red light.
It's not the end of the world unless you kill somebody doing it. I watch some of these
police chases and they just go through red light, stop signs with no care about anybody
else going through there. And occasionally it's somebody and will be a serious accident.
I mean, I don't know who first came up with a light system because, you know, before cars
they didn't have the horses. So somebody had to come up with that system of red lights,
green lights, yellow lights. And what a genius idea. What did they do before that? And
they first had cars just at hope for the best. I think and then the two of you, please
come in and say things, but it has to do with traffic volume and coordination of traffic
movement. So before that, they, you know, maybe a stop sign was adequate or whatever. And,
you know, was traffic increases on a roadway or if they end up with serious crashes many times,
that's something where it will result in the traffic cycle. There's professionals,
traffic engineers that look at this stuff. In fact, that's part of our traffic
safety commission. We have the engineering staff from the county. And when we review the
the fatal traffic crashes and so forth, we always take a look and see is there anything with
the roadway, anything with signage, anything that can be put in place physically to improve
the safety in that particular roadway. When I went to high school in driver's head,
these to show us the accident films, the 60 millimeter, they always came from the Ohio state
police because they put them out. I mean, 60 millimeter and they were graphic. They didn't hide
anything. Pieces of people on the road that capitated. They showed it because I want to scare us,
which was a good idea because here we are, you know, 60 years later, I'm still remembering
what I saw at school. Give us some of the best excuses when you stop people for speeding,
going through lights. Come on, give us a, you gotta hear some really good ones.
They're having their baby. And they're really not. Bathroom is a popular one. Somebody sick or
you know, trying, actually trying to use a tragedy sometimes, and it's really not true. And you
could tell, yeah. They have to go to the hospital for something. Someone is, you know,
in dire need, they're trying to get to some place. Sometimes when we say, we'll get an ambulance
here or, well, I'll get you to the hospital or, you know, what do we need to do here? And then
sometimes they change your tune and, yeah, right. I'll get you to follow me. I'll get you to,
well, I wasn't that bad. I feel a little better now. I mean, why can't people just come
clean and say, I right, it made a mistake. I ran the red light. I've thought I'd get through it.
I mean, it's gonna get the same ticket. It doesn't matter. You don't write the excuse on the ticket.
It's the same ticket, right? Yeah. You don't fall for this stuff. Do you buy the way?
No. I'm trying to figure out what I can use. We're all pretty jaded after.
I mean, it would be, you know, certainly if we see the violation or something like that, and
we do appreciate when a person just comes forward and is honest and, you know, says, hey,
I haven't had a ticket in forever. And you're, you're right. I was speeding whatever. Maybe
there's going to be a little bit grace showing on that person if they're not going so fast or
honesty works. If the violation is not that serious, you know, an officer can use some discretion.
So it doesn't hurt. Honestly, as always, the best policy. You just make that up. I read that down.
Honestly, as the best policy carries a bit on this date. That's good. You know, you mentioned
distracting distractions. And there's more than ever now. There are more than ever in cell phones.
And of course, when we're driving in our personal vehicles, you know, you look over at the vehicle
next to you or you're at a stoplight and you're sitting there and everybody's on their cell phone,
you know, or they're doing something or they're engaging in anything, but what they're there to do
is to drive or they're eating breakfast while driving or they're shaving, combing their hair.
But I let the one eating breakfast. Do you see the breakfast sandwich up there? They've got both
hands on them. Give me a break. I'm going to die in a track or traffic crash so you can have a
neck McMuffin. That doesn't make sense. You can put that on my grave. He was killed by an
egg McMuffin. We are talking to Lieutenant Chuck Garand from the Racine County Sheriff's Office.
Also, Captain Carrie Madrigal, who's from the Racine County Sheriff's Office. And also,
Highway Safety Coordinator and Tom Nitter from the Racine County Traffic Safety Commission.
We're talking about rules of the road. A lot of rules people need a refresher course on.
We talked about the lights, red, yellow, and green. You figure people wouldn't know what that
stuff is, but they don't. That's why people get tickets all the time because they don't know. They
don't care. Here's one of my biggest pet peeves when we talk about rules of the road tailgating.
Now I get here. I leave the house at 515. A lot of cars in the road, but invariably,
there's always one that's so close to my bumper. You can't see the headlights because they're
that close. I can't hit the brakes because I hit the brakes. The guy's going to be up by your
you nowhere. So I just, you know, I, I'm not going to speed up because it's speed limits 30
miles an hour on 16th Street. I am not going to go any faster. Then they're going to show me
they're angry. So they, they go on the bride of me where they go to the left and they hit that
gap. I want to show their man at me and I beep the horn. And then Don's involved in a road rage
incident. No, we're getting to share stuff and getting called. Not me. I just go about my business
in the morning because I'm here a half hour before I need to pee. I just because this guy's late
doesn't mean I have to speed up and get a ticket. I don't, I don't do that. And then if they see
the gates coming down for the railroad on 16th Street, they try to beat it. They go around me and
they try to get through it. So if I, they've made it, this is going to hit one time and they're not
going to make it and happens all the time cars get hit by trains. You don't know how close that
train is. You have no idea. I started by tailgating enough with my, my stuff. I need to go.
That's going to be next month's topic. Yeah, whatever. Real crossing safety.
Enough of my, is it really? Yeah. Enough of my therapy here. All right, tailgating
dangerous violators, receipts, citations, even worse cause crashes, injuring themselves,
other people. And what's really worse is when we get snow here, and they tailgate, how stupid is
that? Yes. Because you're, you're going to hit those breaks. You're not going to stop. You may,
it's, you know, it's a gamble. Whether you're going to stop or not. So this might go back a few
years for some, but the four second rule, now they say the four second rule of following somebody.
So if the vehicle in front of you is driving down the road and picking object to stationary object
that it passed and count one thousand one thousand two until you get to one thousand four. And
that's the closest you should be to the vehicle in front of you. You know, and they say to add a
second for lighting conditions or road conditions, if it's icy or snowy out or, or what have you. So
that's, that's the, the rule that you should be following when you're driving behind somebody.
You know, he's wondered, these people ever take a road test? How do they ever pass a road test?
I mean, I failed my first road test because I came to a four-way intersection and the guy on
the right of me waved me on. You know, you could see I was prey. They had one of those things.
And he waved me on and I went and I saw the guy next to me. He started writing and he failed me.
He said, you shouldn't have gone. I said, he waved me on. He said, I don't care if he waved you on.
He shouldn't go. All right. Really a good refresher, I think, at times. And certainly for
parents to cover what their new drivers and their family is just go to Wisconsin.com,
a DOT, Wisconsin DOT, and look up the Wisconsin drivers handbook and, you know,
refresh your family on some of these things that you have to do every day. Could you imagine if
everybody had to take their road test again in this country? Maybe should we know what driving
might be interesting? Well, he'll still be driving. I'm sad to say because we have a lot of people
that are on the road without a license. Oh, I watch these YouTube things. They pull up the
somebody and they say, can I see it? I don't have it with me. What do you mean you don't have it
with you? How do you not have it in your wallet? I happen. In my wallet is my driver's license,
my insurance card, my registration. I think everything but my birth certificate's in there.
I mean, how do you not have it? Then they find out it was suspended and they say, well, I'm going
to drive home. Well, you're not. You don't have a license. Well, I really do. No, get down. It's
suspended. That's you don't have one. If you had one, yeah, I wouldn't pull you over.
Well, a lot of times they need to get to work, you know, and then that's that's the reason
whether they're traveling. And a lot of times they may have issues with with their vehicle or they
will violate the law, you know, something rolled through a stop sign or through a traffic
sign. Oh, that's a good idea. You know what I mean? The rolling stop sign. I mean, we could we
could do eight sessions on just the rules of the road here and all the infractions. So,
Nicole's the other day. Cole's department store right here in, um, we're seeing.
And they have two stop signs before the crosswalks. And I'm walking the guy blows just
just right through it. And I yell out the big, I'm cursing. It's screaming at this guy. Just
see the blanket stop sign. You're moron. Right. It was hit me because he's not paying attention or
oh, I don't need to stop. That's not really a stop sign. Yes, it's really a stop sign. We'll get
to that later on. Um, I got to ask you about, and I see these YouTube videos for the sovereign
citizens who don't need a driver's license. They don't need. They're just traveling. They don't
need a license. But you ever run into any of those? We do at times. Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, it's
one of our biggest challenges and, uh, law enforcement doesn't want it. We actually don't want to
make a bigger issue out of something so minor as a traffic violation. So when you're, you know,
stay low. You're driving a vehicle. You have to identify yourself and and have some ID.
But some people have, they think otherwise of it. And, you know, it leads into, uh,
misdemeanor crime of obstructing and which could lead to resisting and, uh, people sometimes
to trip the jail and it's just not worth it. We don't understand why some people want to go
through all this and, uh, has it ever worked? No. So why do these people do it? It's not going to
work when they stop you. They're a sovereign citizen. All of that and by all means go there
listening and watching the wrong YouTube videos. But it doesn't work. They should know that.
All right. Well, I'm going to tell you seat belts are a bone to contention with a lot of people.
First of all, I think the best thing cars ever did will put that dinging noise in there
because it'll drive you crazy if you don't put the seat belt on. And I always wear a seat belt.
I always have, I, my first car didn't have seat belts in it. It just didn't make them.
I remember the first car in our neighborhood at a seat belts. Everybody went into Robbie Jacobs'
mother's car and we all buckled in. It was just a waste belt. It wasn't the, the shoulder thing
they have today. Everybody wanted to try it on because she had the first car in the neighborhood
with seat belts. Well, look at this. And we didn't have them. And, you know, it's hard to believe
today that we'll draw around and weren't buckled in or anything. Yeah. But nowadays I,
you got a buckle in. I mean, even if you get a fender bender, I mean, if you don't have that
seat belt on, you want to go hit the steering wheel with your head. I mean, it's just not worth it.
And it's not a big deal. Just buckle it in. What are you going to do?
I had looked up a little research on seat belts and it was actually up.
20, 23 was actually up to like near 92% usage. 92 or 93 people using it,
using it. And then it's, it went down in 24 slightly. But overall, there seems to be an
increase in people using their seat belt or child safety restraints. So that's a positive thing.
I remember where my daughter was born. We lived in Atlanta. And they said,
where's your baby seat? Or she's not getting out of the hospital. Unless we have a car seat.
It sits in there. We have to inspect it. That was back in 1980. So they had somebody from
the hospital come on. All right. This one's good. We can put her in the seat now.
Before car seats, they just let their kids lay in the back seat. And they have moved around,
jumping around like, you know, a lot of walls in the back seat.
Nobody did anything about it. Well, let's talk about because we have to come back after
the break here to finish up here. But seat belts using seat belts are an incredibly effective
and simple way to save lives. It took them, I think the 1960s to finally decide to put them in cars.
What took them so long? What were they thinking about in the 50s? Didn't anybody come up with this
society? Maybe we should have something to hold people from going through the windshield.
Probably a lot of fatal accidents. Or the car dealers didn't, you know, manufacturers didn't want
to spend the money. That's my guess. All right. Driver, let's see what we got here.
Insistence seat belt used by all occupants, including those in rear seats is the single most
effective way to protect against being ejected from a vehicle or being thrown around
violently during a crash. I saw one of the YouTube crashes the other day. It was a police chase
and the person ran a red light and somebody they were ejected from the car. And of course,
they died. It was the innocent victim died. They weren't wearing a seat belt. They found
them in the woods. They went right through. I can't imagine flying through the windshield and
winding up in the woods. That's how violent a crash it would have been. We're talking about
staying safe this morning. We have a whole bunch of people in here. It's a full house today. We
have Lieutenant Chuck Garin from the Racine County Sheriff's Office. Also Captain Carrie Madrigal
from the Racine County Sheriff's Office. And she's also the Highway Safety Coordinator and
Tom Ditter from the Racine County Traffic Safety Commission. You can follow us online. Racine
County slash staying safe. Racine County slash staying safe. And we're talking about rules of
the road and important topic with me because I follow the rules of the road. And a lot of people
don't. Let's talk about that. We're talking about seat belts. They're mandatory in cars.
Now, but once they weren't mandatory, you didn't have to wear a seat belt. And I remember when
the law went into effect, a lot of people didn't like it because they didn't like the government
telling them they had to do something. And my mom and dad, you wear the seat belt. And my brother
was one of the big people that said, yeah, but they have no right to tell where the seat belt or
you're not getting that car. But I know a lot of people felt like that. They said, how do you
tell me how to do it? But you know, and again, driving is not a right. It's a privilege. And if
you're going to get the privilege, you got to follow the rules of the road. And one of them is
wearing seat belts. You got a lot of people as soon as you pull them over, you see them reach
for the belt and pull it over. Some of you can see them put put the seat belt on as soon as they
get stopped. You see all of a sudden the arm goes up and you'd see fall over. But you got
them on a camera now. Dash cameras so you can catch them, right? We actually don't have
dash cam right now. But we are getting them actually this year. They'll be here tomorrow morning
at 6 a.m. Yes, there you go. Tell them what you don't at. What's a 10 bucks with a seat belt?
What's it? It is $10 for an adult driver. Yeah, passenger. And I can't believe people don't
belt their kids in the back. Again, they'll be bouncing around like a lot of balls. If you
you know, if you don't have get into an accident, it's just not the belt it in. Now, the law
doesn't apply to the passengers in the back seat. Does it being seat belted in? At least
heard that doesn't. Yeah, everybody needs to sell. So it's everybody. Correct. Well, nobody
sit in the back seat in my car. But who knows where those belts are. They're tucked in somewhere.
I don't think I've never had a person sitting in the back seat in my car. My watch car. Yeah,
but not mine. What time do you get done today? We'll show up. We'll see if you really drive
down. See, my front seat is broken. It's stuck in the back position. It can't move forward.
And I told I went to the Chevy dealership here and they said, well, we can't find a seat for
your car. We'll keep looking. They said, just it won't move. It's fine, which is good for me
because I'm six foot three and I need to see back all the way. My wife tries to sit in it and
just can't move it forward. Just fine. I don't care. Yeah, a leg room. Yeah, that's what I need.
And not with that. You don't want this steering wheel sitting in the gut. Okay, um,
driver some passengers who are hurt or killed in traffic crashes because they don't buckle up,
create tremendous economic losses such as medical expenses, lost worker productivity.
The rest of society pays for nearly 75% of these economic losses through higher insurance premiums,
taxes, other public funding. That's according to the national transportation safety board in 2023,
economic losses from traffic fatalities and injuries here in Wisconsin cost more than 33.2
billion with a big dollars. That's according to the 2023 Wisconsin traffic crash facts. Well,
that's a lot of money. A lot of money. That's because they're not buckling up. Well, and just some
just some things to think about through a state of Wisconsin, their stats for crashes.
One crash happens every four minutes in the state of Wisconsin. One property damage crash happens
every five minutes. One injury or fatal crash happens every 21 minutes. So why don't we
be on the air? There have been at least two fatal traffic crashes in Wisconsin. They Wisconsin
reported that there were, I think it was just over 127,000 accidents reported this state of
Wisconsin for 2024. So you know, all these things that we're talking about and you know, we want
people to drive safe. It leads the crashes. It leads to people getting hurt. It leads to a lot of
property damage and higher insurance rates and everything else. Then there's drive right pass on
the left. Now you always see it on the back of trucks, big semis. Don't pass on the right,
pass me on the left because they can't see you coming up. When I get on 16th street in the
morning, you know, when they get angry at me, they try to pass me on the right, but there are cars
parked there. And when it's dark outside, I could see them and they try to speed up to get pass me
and they want me to stop in the middle of the road. So they can get in before they smash into the
back of a car. I don't know what I'm not going to stop getting the road because there are other
people behind me too. And, you know, invariably they'll stop and they'll get back into the lane
again. But it's scary when you see I there's a car in that lane. Where do you think you're going?
You know, you're not on a freeway. Oh, I got scared just talking about it. Left lane is designed
for passing. The right lane is for more average driving lane. According to state law, any vehicle
traveling at less than normal speed of traffic. Change pages. Must be driven in the right lane. Yeah,
the slow lane, the grandma lane, the grandpa lane. And as close as practical except when overtaking
or passing another vehicle, here's another topic that's really annoying to be blinkers. And
it's not a road rage thing. But if somebody gets in front of me without blinking, I make sure that
if they're looking at their review mirror, I give them the wave like to just move in and out of
traffic. So I wave them back and forth without using their signal. And then they make a left turn.
They still don't use their signal. How difficult is it to turn the signal on it? It's not that
difficult. I mean, it's not it's not hard to do. It's there for a reason. And it's to let
everyone around you know what you're doing. And remember, driver said you had to put your arm out
when you make it. I haven't seen a person do that since I graduated high school.
You see it once throughout motorcycles. We'll understand the motorcycles will do it.
They're middle finger when they put their motorcycles will do it. And if you tell if you if your
signals are broken, you're supposed to use it to use it all the time. But nobody does.
Use your blink is yes. It's illegal if you don't use your signals to make a maneuver.
You're legally required to signal before pulling over pulling into traffic, changing lanes,
parking, merging, turning right and left, etc. And yes, you can get a ticket for failing to
signal your intentions using your blinkers. It's required if there are other vehicles around you
in the event that other vehicles may be affected by your movement. The use of a turn signal is
mandatory. You know, I've got to get something in my front on my dashboard written backwards.
So they look in the mirror. It just says use your blinkers. But lights up and blinks at them so
they can, you know, I want to get those kind of things. All right. You need to use
made of sections traffic lights overtaking a cyclist. You always have motorcycles. They don't have
this breaking ability and yeah, making turns, switching lanes, pulling away,
parking. You know, my wife says when I pull up to the merge section and after I merge,
I got to continue left. That was my signal launch because you don't need your signal here.
There's nowhere else to go. You've got to turn here. I said, but it's technically a turn. You
know where it is. It's where the old Walgreens is where they smashed the car through Walgreens at
state and at the state memorial. If you're going south, there's a merge lane to get on the state
street. But once you're in that lane, you can't turn any other way because you don't need to
signal here, but I do it anyway. It's like a check the stove 40 times fairly of the house every day.
It's one of those things that just, you know, it's just a good habit to get into a CDI turn.
Even when I'm pulling into a parking space and there's nobody else around turn,
but I want to say, what are you using your signal for? There's nobody here. I think I not just
you are in a very good habit of doing it. And also if somebody else is coming the other way,
I wanted to know it's my space. If they try to take it, this is going to be hell to pay.
That's my very courteous time. Very, very courteous. You know, my dad, we were at Nathan's in
Coney Island once and my dad was pulling into a space that he was halfway into the lady,
pulled him from the other side. And my dad said, when I'm moving and he turned off the engine,
he said, we're staying here. And she had like three screaming kids in the car. So eventually,
she had to move. I felt like it's just let her have the space. She's got all these kids in the
car. I said, she's pulling in from the other direction. You're not supposed to do that. And so
anyway, we got the space and proving a point. I know my dad went overboard, though. He threw
ice pops at cabs and Manhattan. I did all that kind of stuff. So he was a lunatic to drive with
sometimes. But he said, if you don't, you're going to cause traffic accident. You got to be a
little aggressive and so forth. Let's review what we talked about this morning. Quick review.
And if you want to have anything to say about it, just pipe in, stop on red and yellow. Yellow
doesn't mean hit the gas and see if you can get through it. Don't tailgate causes problems,
makes people irritable like me, you know, and I'm not a road rager, but I do get a light
start screaming on the car. I said, you jump, but they can't hear me. Be good. Pay quick story.
So one time I'm driving and this back in the early 70s, I'm driving on the road. And these guys
are tailgating me. I give them a little finger in the review mirror. I don't know who's driving
in the car. They pull up next to me to stop light and it's like three tough guys in the car.
And they said, do you want to say something to us? No, not me. I had nothing to say. They said,
we just thought you wanted to give us a message or something. No, your number one. No, no, no,
telling you not me. I had nothing to say. I never did it again. I bet no. I didn't see
them in the room. And they said, did you have a message for us? All right, don't tailgate.
And you seatbelts, you seatbelts, they're there for a reason. And believe me, you get into an accident,
you'll thank God they're seatbelts and those big airbags. Dude, that was another good invention
we had. People say, well, it hurts to get hit with them. We do rather go through the windshield.
That hurts more. And drive right pass on the left. Don't pass, especially a truck or a bot.
First of all, it's supposed to pass a school bus anyway when those things are up. But don't pass
them, you know, especially when those school bus stop signs are up, people go right through it.
The school buses have cameras now where they can catch them. They do. And they report to us
quite frequently on people that violate their stop. Did they miss anything this morning?
Want to hand anything here? You got it down just speed. Speed is very important. Fall,
the speed limit makes everything worse. It's drive courteous. And everything that we're talking
here today, we don't want to go out and we'd love to have society just we don't have to give it any
ticket cell because everybody's fallen the law. But it just doesn't happen that way, unfortunately.
But everything we're talking about is to reduce your possibility of getting an accident,
getting hurt, hurting someone else and just making it to your destination.
Captain Kerry, what are you up to? Slow down. Today's, you know, everyone's lives is very busy,
you know, much different than say from the 50s. And there's so many things that are
have the ability to distract us. And, you know, take time. If you know that it's bad weather,
add some time. Give yourself time to get to where you're going because getting into an accident,
getting pulled over and getting a citation is going to slow you down. You're not going to get
to your destination. This means set your whole day getting it today. It absolutely will. But
really, the distractions put the phones down and pay attention to what you're doing on the road.
And everybody will be in a better, better place. I mean, you'll get to where you're going.
And you'll wake up tomorrow. Tom, what do you have to add? You look like you're really
going to say something. They had the, you know, the comments that were made are just spot on.
It's in your best interest to follow the rules that road. You're going to be the one that
benefits. You won't be getting ticketed. You won't be involved in crashes. You'll add to the
benefit of the society in terms of the economic costs of crashes and so forth. And a lot of times
if people do things, you know, they'll have guilt. If they get involved in the crash and they know
that they know that it was their, their responsibility and they didn't follow up to their responsibility.
Yeah. So why do that? You know, be a good citizen. Do the best you can.
You know, I mean, you've got to sing down. Don't drive or some people drive like they got ticket
money. Yeah. Don't drive like you got ticket money. Drive, drive a little bit curious and slow.
And I always tell people driving is a privilege. That privilege can be taken away. It's not a right.
There's nothing of the constitution that says you have a right to drive a car. It's a privilege
granted to you, whichever state you're in. So thank you guys for coming in this morning. Thank you.
We want to thank Lieutenant Chuck Garin from the Racine County Sheriff's Office. We also have
Captain Carrie Madrigal here from the Racine County Sheriff's Office and also the Highway Safety
Coordinator. We're going to be hearing more from you. I have a feeling. Okay. And Tom
Knitter from the Racine County Traffic Safety Commission is here. Thank you for setting this up, Tom.
We very well. Either a good job. I have a guest here. Oh, thank you. This breaks up the morning
from me. I like it. Thank you guys for coming in. Drive carefully out there. You hear
these guys have a ticket book and they don't give you a ticket to be me and they give you a ticket
so you'll live a little longer.
