Reader Eddie Bath commented on Facebook, telling us that laws are needed to target texting: "The most cost effective, and what I think would be the most beneficial, would be to make texting and driving illegal with a HUGE fine. You don't know how many times I've driven down this stretch and seeing people texting. It's a long straight stretch and it is easy to get complacent. So add texting to the mix and you add a deadly contributing factor for accidents to happen."

For the past 25 years I have lived three miles from the I-26 exit 187, right in the middle of the so called "death zone". Most of those years my husband and I worked in the North Charleston area and our daughter downtown. Between the three of us we have driven hundreds of thousands of miles in the "death zone" without one accident or incident .... it is not the road, the trees, the barrier, the speed limit or law enforcement.....it is the drivers.

I would expect the state to spend hundreds of thousands taxpayer dollars to determine that drivers are the culprits, not the road per se. I'm sure there are many thousands of miles of roadway that are duplicates of this stretch of I-26 that are not considered a hazard. Enforce the law and decrease the accident rates.

Reduce the speed limit. Fines for texting while driving. Turn it into a "safety corridor" with extra enforcement like Virginia did with I-95.

Leave it the way it is It's population control

Vary the road markings,i.e., lane lines, edge markings etc. Perhaps a rumble strip every five miles. Reduce and enforce speed limit. I have driven to and from I-95 many times and noticed and fought tunnel vision and highway hypnosis too often

People have been wrecking in this area long before texting was an issue. I would wager that as population gradually moves out from Charleston the speeds will be reduced naturally as more businesses open and the frontage roads become populated, which will reduce the tree "tunnels".

Driving across Kansas IS boring, but there are things to see that keeps the driver a little more occupied and it is more wide open, and at times you are fighting the wind for control of the direction of your vehicle... which is a distraction as well. If most of the accidents are coming Eastbound, I think the tree cover has a lot to do with drowsy driver accidents more than much else.

I don't want to see the trees knocked back. Driving is a personal responsibility, and wire barriers should fix some issues that drivers don't.

Rumble strips would be a good first step in reducing accidents in this area. Make them wide to give the driver adequate notice to pay attention. Flashing road warning signs might also help.