Dear Editor,
Are officers out there to serve and protect? Serve, they try
their hardest to help who they can and do their best. They even put
their lives in danger many times to help others. There are many
amazing officers and cops out there, but like the old saying
goes
”
With all good comes bad.
”
Dear Editor,
Are officers out there to serve and protect? Serve, they try their hardest to help who they can and do their best. They even put their lives in danger many times to help others. There are many amazing officers and cops out there, but like the old saying goes “With all good comes bad.”
I was involved in an accident last Wednesday – the 16-year-old girl in the Gilroy Dispatch. You know teens it’s always us … we are to blame, but in this case I believe it wasn’t entirely my fault.
I went to make a left turn off of Frazier Lake Road onto Highway 152 (Pacheco Pass). I had a stop sign and made my complete stop “to yield to traffic.” A truck with its right blinker on started to make his turn on to Frazier Lake Road, so I saw my chance to go. What I did not see was the blue Oldsmobile behind it until I began making my turn. the Oldsmobile went left around the truck before it had completed it’s turn , crossing a double yellow into my lane and then hitting me at approximately 50 mph.
My car was totaled. Luckily, all involved suffered only minor injuries. I got a few scrapes and bruises, a hurt arm from the seat belt and a huge headache.
Help got there right away. What seemed like hours, as I sat in a field in tears, only took minutes. I was put on a stretcher and rushed to Saint Louis Hospital. For that I am grateful and thank the fire department, CHP, paramedics and my neighbors for being first on the scene to help.
They tried their best to break the ice and make the best out of the situation telling jokes so I could feel a little better. The hospital was also very nice trying to cope with my stubbornness and desire to leave.
But there was one CHP officer who was not very helpful. When we talked on the phone a day later so that he could get my statement he was very rude and acted as if I was unintelligent. He basically told me there was no way my statement could have been true, then repeatedly, in a rude manner, asked if I new what yield means. He told me I ran a stop sign when I had come to a complete stop and yielded until I believed I was clear to go. How is that not a stop?
On medication and in pain, I could do nothing more but listen to the remarks he made and cry. I was always told that officers are there to serve and protect, but where is the protection in that? I later learned that also at the accident scene he was very rude to my dad who tried his best to describe what he believed happed. This has not made me bitter about officers, but just leaves me to wonder that if I was not a teenager/young person would it be “my fault.”
Amy Blundo, Gilroy
