Odd memorial

Readers,

Sometimes I’ll step out of the newsroom at The Evening News a bit and just talk about … well, whatever.

I was driving home from the Kentuckinatti airport last night along Interstate 71 and saw a familiar sign — the ‘memorial’ to the May 14, 1988, Carrollton, Ky., bus crash, as it’s known.

It remains the deadliest bush crash in U.S. history. It left 27 people dead and more than 30 injured.

What I’ve always found weird is the nature of the memorial. It’s a green and white metal road sign — similar to the one that lets drivers know they are entering Carroll County, or that there are X amount of miles to the next city.
It’s nondescript, cold and unfeeling, which doesn’t seem to fit the nature of the tragedy, since so many emotions were raised — not only by those who lost family and friends, but by anti-drunken driving groups angry at Larry Mahoney, the wrong-way driver who hit the bus in his pickup truck.

There has even been discussion about the signs here: http://www.kentuckyroads.com/news/568.html

I think memorializing the crash is a good thing — and there is a more permanent memorial at North Hardin Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Radcliff.

To me, the sign just looks out of place when dressed up as a standard road sign.

What do you think?