The Road Toll
Sir, —The Vice-Regal cockpit drill and Mr Craw’s speedgovernors are both laudable suggestions, but impracticable. Who is to “bell the cat”? All effort must be concentrated on the law-breakers, starting with those whom any fool could catch. A facile acceptance that, in themselves, alcohol, high speed, and lack of experience cause most accidents, merely hides the truth that a wrong state of mind at the wheel is the real killer. Last evening after
lighting-up time, 1 parked in Barrington street speedway and watched drivers in the poor visibility of dusk and drizzle. The majority were breaking the law with insufficient lighting, and some had no lights at all. The majority, I repeat, were driving illegally on parking lights, knowing that they were safe from a law-enforcement organisation which is either stupid or sick. The deliberate law-breaker will persist until he crashes.—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. January 7, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30953, 8 January 1966, Page 12
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151The Road Toll Press, Volume CV, Issue 30953, 8 January 1966, Page 12
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