Accident experience shows C.R.’s bad side

I've always liked the friendly city of Cedar Rapids. My daughter enjoyed living there while attending Kirkwood Community College. She has continued to see a doctor in Cedar Rapids instead of one closer to home in Hudson. However, that will change.

On Oct. 12, after her class at the University of Northern Iowa was done, she drove to Cedar Rapids for her appointment. Unfortunately, she thought the young man ahead of her was going through the stoplight on Collins Road, but he changed his mind and she ran into the back of his Jeep. After her tearful call to me at work in Waterloo, I got to her as fast as I could.

However, the boy's mom got there first and berated my daughter and told her how she was going to pay dearly. My daughter also was asked by the officer to stop calling him “sir” as he was just a working man.

By the time we arrived, both the mom and the cop had left her alone in a parking lot with her wrecked car. Thank God no one was hurt and the damage to the Jeep was minimal. We will no longer be making our way south for shopping or appointments. Thanks for the “hospitality.”

Janet Williams

Hudson