Opinion

Near tragedy points to driving danger

Posted March 11, 2014 5:01 am

The story in the Herald on March 1 about Kerry Kennedy brought back what happened to me four years ago. I was visiting my sister in Tinley Park, and just before I left to come home I mistakenly took a sleeping pill instead of a pill for high cholesterol but I figured it would not affect me before I got home. I figured wrong. After about one half-hour on I-355 I passed out; the next thing I remembered was being surrounded by two police cars at a toll gate where I tapped the car in front of me. The police said I was all over the highway.

This could have been a real tragedy. I was not the least bit aware what a sleeping pill could do. You have my permission to print this if you wish. It might make someone else aware of the terrible danger taking a sleeping pill at the wrong time.

Patrick Gallagher

Schaumburg

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