“What made you go off the road?”

In the mind of Kyle resident Molly Pardo, that’s the question a sheriff’s deputy should have asked regarding a truck in the ditch along a dark country road.

Pardo believes the perceived failure of Hays County Sheriff’s Office deputies to ask a driver that question when they found his truck stuck in the mud along Goforth Road Sept. 22 irrevocably changed lives.

The lack of one important query is leading to many more for Pardo, whose boyf...