(La Porte County, IN) - A law enforcement officer is detailing two life-threatening decisions just seconds apart from each other this afternoon by drivers in what seems to be happening more frequently on the roads.

 

Mike Kellems said he was off-duty in his pick-up truck on 500 West near Johnson Road and being tailgated by a vehicle just inches from his rear bumper.

 

He said another driver coming up from behind on the two lane road passed both of them on a blind hill in a curve at a high rate of speed.

 

Kellems said the driver then passed another car from behind and ran the stop sign at Small Road without slowing down before turning into the parking lot of a factory in Pinola.   The tailgating driver behind Kellems also passed him on a blind curve on 500 West at 20 to 30 miles per hour above the speed limit.

 

“Had there been a car coming the other way, I can’t imagine what the results would have been,” he said.

 

Kellems, who’s been a police officer for over 30-years, said a noticeable increase in drivers nowadays seem to be making very daring decisions without regard, apparently, to the potential for taking the lives of innocent people and themselves. 

 

“They’re becoming very, very impatient,” he said.

 

Kellems said drivers should plan in advance to leave a bit early for their destinations to help avoid being in such a hurry.

 

For whatever reason, he said more drivers just seem to have little to no respect for other motorists.

 

“It’s me.  It’s my car.  It’s my road.  Get out of my way.  I got places to go and you’re holding me up,” he said.