As I read about a traffic collision this summer that involved an off-duty major in the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, several things stood out to me. Most importantly, a family of six was riding in the SUV that the major struck in his pickup when he failed to yield at an intersection. An eight-year-old and his grandmother were injured.
But a distracting phrase kept popping out at me: “Uncontrolled intersection.”
That’s what law enforcement said Chad Dickerson, the pickup driver who is now retired from the sheriff’s department, drove through when he failed to yield to the SUV as it crossed through the intersection from the right…