Dear Editor,

The latest issue of the Post Messenger Recorder published the driver’s claim that he had swerved to avoid a deer, causing the accident. I had a clear view of the road, and can report there was no deer, that Shawn refused to answer me when I asked him what had happened, that the responding officer reported to me that he thought Shawn was not being forthcoming.

As it turns out, Shawn and I may have had prior dealings with one another including possibly one incident where he clearly indicated his bitterness with my choosing to keep the road in front of home under careful surveillance due to the abundant number of fatal animal/traffic incidents in the precise area where the “accident” occurred. It is a matter of public record that I complained to the Town Board over a decade ago, of finding large vehicle tracks across my property, and a nearby property with a cat lying dead at their terminus, and two bloody tire tracks in just the past year resulting from animals killed by a vehicle or vehicles on Kennebec Lane, directly across the street from Shawn’s “accident.”

I had a clear view of the entire matter until the last second before impact and it is my decided view that what I saw was in no way accidental, but a deliberate willful and malicious act by a man who may have had a powerful motive for wishing to hurt me and mine.

It seems he was released with no requirement for bail, no requirement that he enter a treatment plan, and retains his license without reservation, thanks to Judge Thomas Vale. It is an outrage.

Patrick O’Brien,

New Glarus