He's the luckiest kid of the day because if the driver hadn't of been paying serious attention, and come to a complete stop in the road, milliseconds before the collision, I don't believe the rider would have walked away from the accident with just a few minor abrasions and a new respect of vehicles... I believe he would have had suffered serious injury and endured a visit to the emergency room... if not the morgue.

The kid was forced between a rock and a hard place and ended up with the short end of the stick. One of those damned if you do and damned if you don't situations. Nothing more then an accident waiting to happen.

Why was it an accident waiting to happen? Because there are no sidewalks to provide a safe alternate route.

It simply amazes me that Springfield City Leaders use the catch all word of "Safety" anytime they try to shove issues and ideas down our throats but when it comes to real issues of safety they turn a blind eye and deaf ear. The same goes for the Springfield Public School Board members.

We need sidewalks in Northwest Springfield. 

Time and Time again people are put into dangerous situations because nobody who has any authority to create real change seems to care.

I care.

Send me to Jefferson City folks... I guarantee the City of Springfield will be pouring cement for sidewalks in Northwest Springfield before my first term is up. And that's not all.

Robert M. Brantley