Posted Speed Limit Is Unconscionable

* Today I witnessed the aftermath of yet another automobile collision in front of Oxnard Shores caused by excessive speed on Harbor Boulevard. A car traveling 50 to 60 m.p.h. southbound on Harbor cut in front of another car too close and the driver of the slower car swerved to prevent a collision and hit a lamp pole head-on. The major reason for the accident was excessive speed caused by the city of Oxnard posting an unsafe legal speed limit on the portion of Harbor Boulevard that fronts Oxnard Shores.

The speed limit in front of the Shores was always marginal for safe driving when it was 45 m.p.h. because many drivers go 5 to 10 m.p.h. faster than the posted speed limit. Recently, however, it was raised to the unconscionable speed of 50 m.p.h. Now a high percentage of drivers go 55 to 60 m.p.h. in front of the highest-density single-family housing tract in Oxnard.

For all practical purposes, we are now living next to a freeway with freeway speeds. Oxnard is opening itself up for another major lawsuit because of raising the speed limit to 50 m.p.h. on Harbor Boulevard when they should have lowered it to 35 m.p.h.

TED KUEPPER

Oxnard Shores