Resident concerned with roundabout

To the editor:
    First, let me say there is no one that doesn’t feel the heartfelt loss of life for this little girl. Nothing can make it easier to accept. It was an absolute heartfelt loss of life for everyone.
   I was a school bus driver in Chesterfield and there is that added responsibility of do I cross (the intersection) or not. If that thought is even considered, the answer is not. The truck driver surely was not out knowing his load weight was over. This was failure to ensure the weight of the vehicle. The person running the loader fully knows the limit of a load. The truck driver really has to accept the person running the loader is educated and informed to know his job on weight loads.
   Now to the roundabout. Yes, great idea. Put a circle in the middle of a country county road. Expect drivers not knowing the area to eventually go through the center. Especially, let us say bars closed 3 a.m., this circle might fall into being entertainment on a hot summer night to watch.
   A red light system with the trip-type timer would have been a better thought. Now if I am correct, you are considering a second circle on another country county road. I thought New Jersey was getting rid of circles.
   A circle is round plane figure whose boundary consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the center). AKA new word — roundabout — actually is a British term for traffic circle.
Valerie R. Jones
Crosswicks 