The other day I was driving and I noticed that someone had candy striped a stop sign in reflective tape; boy did it stand out. In fact, I know why someone did that, as it was not a place you might expect a stop sign and probably a death had occurred there or some serious accidents. I was not from the area and I had to get on the brakes a little to make the stop due to the way the road was designed. Why do I bring this up? Well, simple; what if we did this on all stop sign poles? Your headlights would hit them and reflect back. You would notice them sooner and there would less chance of people running the stop signs either on purpose or out of lack of attentiveness.

The cost to do this is very low and the chance to save lives and injury is very good? Did you know that 40,000 Americans die each year in automobile deaths, did you know that most of these deaths occur at intersections?

What if we tried this as a test in a couple of states and then in a year let’s take a look at how many lives are saved. This could be big. If we could cut the auto deaths by 5-10% from something so simple, what an incredible gift it would be. That would be 2000 to 4000 more Americans still alive and think of all the accidents and injuries it could prevent. Let’s look for simple ideas to prevent auto deaths. Think of some other ideas, lets get the word out.