Herrington: Road recklessness gets real when your kid takes the wheel
Muscle cars (in a file photo) pass by the lights on Beale Street while cruising B.B. King Boulevard in Downtown Memphis. “There’s an everyday road recklessness that seems to have increased amid the pandemic,” says Chris Herrington. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
Road recklessness has been notable for more than a year, the rise perhaps coinciding with pandemic shutdowns. But it doesn’t seem to be diminishing, even as COVID restrictions ease.
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