June 20, 2001

Ascension Parish Sheriff Department
Sheriff Jeff Wiley c/o Tony Bacala
828 South Irma Blvd
Gonzales, La. 70737

Dear Sir:

Please accept this letter as a formal complaint regarding the lack of traffic enforcement by the Ascension Parish Sheriff Department with regards to Cornerview Road, from the Gonzales town line to Highway 73

Vehicles on this road are constantly violating the speed limit and crossing double the solid lines in the sharp curves that exist on this road.

I travel this road on an average of 2 to 3 times a week and have not in any of those travels viewed one single deputy ticketing or monitoring the speed limit.

The department of public works and the Department of Transportation installed numerous warning and speed signs on this road some time ago. Yet the Sheriff Department in all that time has yet to enforce one of those signs.

As you might well be aware, this road is heavily traveled day and night, and in my opinion one of the more dangerous roads in the parish due to the multiple sharp curves that exist there. Yet monitoring of this road by your organization does not exist.

If you feel that the State Police should assist in monitoring traffic violators on this road, then by all means find the time in your all too busy schedule to contact them.

Chuck Le Mieux

Cc/email to:

Mr. Harold Marchand Ascension Parish President
Ms. Patricia Cook Ascension Parish Secretary
The Ascension Parish Council c/o Mr. R. Loupe
Mr. Alvin Thomas Ascension Parish Council District 1
Mr. Adrian Thompson Ascension Parish Council District 3
Mr. Dudley Brown Ascension Parish Council District 4
Mr. Donnell Nickens  Ascension Parish Council District 5
Mr. Shafter Kling Ascension Parish Council District 8
Mr. Jerry Savoy Ascension Parish Council District 9
Mr. Martin McConnell Ascension Parish Council District 10
Mr. Darnell Martinez Ascension Parish Council District 11
Mr. Bill Roux Ascension Parish Public Works
Mr. Doyle Mitchell Ascension Parish Public Works
Mr. Jeff Wiley Ascension Parish Sheriff c/o Mr. Tony Bacala
Mr. Louis J. Lambert Louisiana State Senate
Mr. R. Carter Louisiana Department of Transportation
Mr. G. Nelson Louisiana Department of Transportation
Ms. Jennifer Sheffield Channel Two Road Patrol
Channel 2 News Room
Mr. John MacMillan The Advocate’s River Parish Office
Mr. Steven Ward The Advocate’s River Parish Office
Mr. David Young The Gonzales Weekly
Mr. David Young The Community Mirror
Mr. David Young Ascension Parish TV
The Ascension Citizen

There have been 281 traffic deaths from 1995 through 2007 on Ascension Parish roads
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