Beware Low-Water Crossings

Dear Editor,
    Every time it rains a few inches, some misguided moron tries to drive through a low-water crossing. Sometimes they make it. When they don’t, the lucky ones are rescued, which risks the lives of EMS and water-rescue personnel. The unlucky ones get swept away and drown.
    How long is it going to take the people responsible for all the low-water crossings in this area to realize that roads that were adequate for horses and Model T Fords are not acceptable for motorists in the 21st century?
    Visitors are always amused at the sight of high-water "rulers" at low-water crossings. They are also dumbfounded by my lack of a reasonable explanation as to why there aren’t bridges. Maybe it is to keep people from moving to areas that are routinely cut off from the rest of the world (kind of like not building roads to discourage development). If that’s the reason, it’s not working.
    This situation is similar to the dangerous intersection that finally gets traffic lights after numerous fatalities. How many more people will be swept away before bridges replace these "quaint" 19th-century low-water crossings?