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A Vermont police chief has had enough of death on the roads to the community, and he's written a frank editorial to spotlight the effects the deaths are having on his town.
Frank Koss used the editorial in the Hinesburg Record, to ask his neighbors not to forget that two people were killed in a crash between a bicycle and car in April.
Koss told WPTZ that it wasn't an accident that killed bicyclist Richard Tom, 47, and driver Joseph Marshall, 17.
Koss said Marshall had been going 83 mph when he hit Tom's bike, killing him. Koss told WPTZ that Marshall, despite only being 17, was no stranger to his police department.
"When you drive at such a high rate of speed, when you drive consistently when we know you're doing this a lot at what point do you have to realize that there is an expectation that you could hurt somebody," Koss said.
Residents are happy to hear their chief speak that way.
"I think that in the politically correct society we are in, police tend to try and stay in the middle and I think often times we lose a voice because we're not trying to upset anyone on either side of things," Jeremy Revell told WPTZ.
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