ACCIDENTS
Sir, — Who is responsible for these terrible road tragedies? When faced with a question like this it is a natural human reaction to immediately blame someone else. Find the nearest scapegoat in each case, load the guilt onto their shoulders, pay out compensation, file the case away all nice and neat legal and self-satisfying. The toll of death and destruction continues to mount. Something is drastically wrong. Where? Who? We are all road users, is it us? Our vehicles? Roads? Laws? Or maybe our outlook. While the "Nothing we can do about it" attitude is also the semi-official one, nothing will be done. Something has got to be done and must be done, What? Surely anything that can be done to reduce the slaughter is better than nothing. While it might be impossible to stop all accidents where the human element is involved it is possible to reduce the odds considerably, to start with by concentrating on the recognised death traps, official or otherwise. Apparently some of the laws controlling these are somewhat archaic, suitable maybe in the days of the one horse trap, but hardly capable of controlling modern speeding monsters. — Yours, etc.,
PETER J.
POTTER.
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Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 55, 15 July 1965, Page 3
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198ACCIDENTS Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 55, 15 July 1965, Page 3
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