Roadside Memorials Help Bring Closure, But Laws Differ From State to State

An elaborate display featuring a cross and bouquets of flowers was set up on US Route 17 heading southbound. The name of the crash victim is covered on on Dec. 13, 2021. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

The last five words Traci Haupert of Peru, Indiana would ever say to her daughter Taylour Sparks were, “Be safe. I love you.”

On that clear spring morning of May 5, 2018, Sparks, who was just 25 years old, was a passenger on her boyfriend’s motorcycle as the two went rolling along on US Route 24, bound for a fundraiser in northern Indiana.