I’m writing in concern for the safety of the citizens of Panola County. On Sunday, September 5, while driving home on Pope-Water Valley Rd, I got behind a truck pulling a trailer loaded with a 4-wheeler.

While behind this truck I noticed he was weaving back and forth on the road and into oncoming traffic. I placed a call to Panola County Sheriff’s Office and gave the dispatcher this information. While on the phone with dispatch, I continued to follow this vehicle and give coordinates of location and turns of the vehicle.

The dispatcher was advised that this vehicle had went off the road on 2 separate occasions almost hitting 2 different guard rails, while I was following him and driving into oncoming traffic.

This began around 9 p.m., and even as I continued to follow this vehicle up Hwy 51, then onto Hentz Rd and then onto Interstate 55 until the North Batesville Exit, I had no response from the Sheriff’s Department.

This was very upsetting to me and I contacted the sheriff on Monday, September 6. I gave all this information to the sheriff and he advised me that he would turn this information over to his chief deputy and they would check into this matter and call me back.

I still have not received a return call.

My complaint is not that I didn’t get a return call from the sheriff; it is the fact that an impaired driver who was all over the road endangering others as well as himself and I couldn’t get any help from the Sheriff’s Department in getting him off the road. I finally quit following him at the North Batesville exit as there wasn’t anything else that I could do.

Jeremy Denley