A business owner in Edmond, Oklahoma, is speaking out after a driver going more than three times the posted speed limit lost control and plowed into her building last week. The crash, which could have been far worse, is shining a spotlight on a stretch of road she says has become an unofficial drag strip for reckless drivers. And the attitude she got afterward from the people responsible? Not exactly full of remorse.
On May 20, Sharena Perry received an alert from her Ring doorbell camera. What she saw was not a welcome sight: a flashy white car sitting in front of her business, Utopia Plastics, located near 18th Street and Frets in Edmond, with fresh dirt from her garden scattered across the scene. The car had skidded off the road, crossed nearly 300 feet of grass, clipped a handicap pole, and smashed into a brick column on the building’s exterior. What made it even more unsettling was that Perry had been driving along that same stretch of road just minutes before the crash happened.
According to the police report, the driver admitted to officers that he was traveling somewhere between 70 and 80 miles per hour before losing control and leaving the roadway. The posted speed limit on that stretch of 18th Street is 25 miles per hour. That is not a typo. The driver was going more than three times the legal limit through a commercial zone lined with businesses…