To the Editor:

Mid Coast Hospital’s entrance road, Medical Center Drive, indeed is treacherous, as a previous letter-writer suggests (“Hospital road is treacherous,” Oct. 17).

Try negotiating this road’s hazardous curves, as I have, when you’re rushing to the Emergency Room with a family member or neighbor who needs medical attention for an injury that doesn’t require a rescue vehicle.

Have you ever experienced a near miss when rushing to the ER? I can’t imagine the feelings of an ambulance driver who needs get there quickly or risk losing a patient.

Please, Mid Coast, don’t blame this on wetlands regulations: Did you attempt negotiations? Did you try the legal route? Suggest a design change? Consider an alternate site? Let us in on why your customers must deal with this constant hazard.

Whatever the situation, the current road stinks.

Given the money the hospital spends on promotional advertising, I urge its administration to invest in straightening this road in the interest of saving the lives of motorists — ambulance drivers, visitors, patients — especially in Maine’s frequently hazardous weather conditions.

Medical Center Drive shouldn’t result in additional patients for Mid Coast.

Ken Brief
Brunswick