I’d like to focus a little attention on a growing problem in the county.
On June 26 at around 3 p.m., I was riding my motorcycle eastbound on Foothill Road between Saticoy Avenue and Wells Road when I noticed two cars coming at me at a high rate of speed. To my amazement and then horror, the white pickup, which was following a red car, pulled into my lane and started to pass, unfazed by the three large headlights on my bike. Of course, the testosterone levels were soaring and the car in front would never let him pass, so they both accelerated to at least 100 mph.
If you know the road there, it has a wider shoulder on the eastbound lane. Instead of pulling over and allowing me to pass, both cars actually kept accelerating towards me, one in the westbound lane and the other in the widened portion of the road. I was still in my lane heading east and braking hard until I realized that the car coming at me on the wrong side of the street, over two double yellow lines, was running out of road shoulder and was heading straight for me. I accelerated and he missed me by inches.
We seem to hear about young people who are dying during or after illegal street racing about once a month — a young woman about two months ago, a young man last month returning from a race. If it wasn’t for the grace of God, you would be reading about me instead of hearing my story.
I’m certainly not against road racing. In fact, I have a racing license and race a BMW on weekends on tracks at sanctioned events.
We all did stupid things when we were young, but to have absolutely no concern for their safety or the safety of others is really appalling.
— David Rosolek, Ventura
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