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When it is. it will show only a name — nothing to indicate what he or she meant to others who knew him or her.
The VDOT markers will be look-alike signs that motorists will quickly learn to ignore.
The spontaneous roadside memorials of today remind drivers that traffic fatalities are much more than mere statistics.
VDOT claims some of the spontaneous displays encumber the visions of drivers, or are distractions to safe driving.
VDOT should act to assure that no such display encroaches on driver sight lines at intersections.
But the element of momentary driver distraction is less that use of a cell phone, and no more than other common driver distraction.
Yet, this '"distraction.'’ — as opposed to others — reminds drivers to take greater care in their own driving habits.
Replacing personalized memorials with the cookie-cutter markers that bureaucracy would create is a bad idea.
It would be more effective if VDOT came up with ways to alert approaching motorists by letting them know about the number of fatal accidents that had at an upcoming dangerous stretch of roadway or intersection.
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