Letter: Speed limits should not be too slow

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Editor,

To our county commissioners: I am concerned some of the slower speed limits recently posted on the island might prove more of a hazard than a safety. I have had two situations in one week that nearly caused accidents because someone impatiently following me (driving the speed limit) drove around a double yellow line to pass.

In the first incident on Bayview Road at night a driver roared around me, passing on a double yellow line as I was driving 30 mph as newly posted. In the second incident I was on Smuggler’s Cove Road near Eagle Bluff Road driving at the posted 40 mph. It was Monday morning and a pickup truck pulling a lawn-care trailer decided to go around me and would have hit an oncoming car had I not speeded up and allowed him room back behind me.

I do believe that slower speeds save lives. Bayview Road has so many blind curves and driveways that 30 mph might be safer. But it also might be so slow that too many people are in danger of speeding and creating even more danger.

Ann Linnea

Freeland