A bill that would have allowed Adams County sheriff’s deputies to patrol for speeding motorists with radar failed to pass the Legislature this session, but one Natchez woman will continue to push the issue.

&uot;What do we have to do to get (people) to realize speed is a factor on rural county roads,&uot; said Kay Warnock, whose 18-year-old daughter died this year after being struck by a vehicle while she worked as a crossing guard.

In January, the House of Representatives county affairs committee killed a bill that would have allowed deputies in counties with at least 50,000 residents to use radar. Then the board of supervisors voted to submit a local and private version of the bill that would only impact deputies in Adams County and not the whole state. Sen. Bob M. Dearing, D-Natchez, said the bill did not come up for a vote before the Mississippi Senate’s local and private committee.

The Warnocks are circulating petitions around the state hoping to get enough signatures to put the matter before the voters statewide.

&uot;I’m going to keep fighting it,&uot; Warnock said. &uot;I don’t care if it takes me 10 to 15 years.&uot;h