The Road Toll
Sir, —With the festive season imminent, it Is a pretty dim outlook for this year’s tally of road accidents. The strange thing is that the more talk there is about it the less seems to be done by way of positive deterrents. The facts are indisputable: too many inexperienced and thoughtless drivers, too much drinking before driving, and probably, as the motoring correspondent of a well-known paper said recently, a hard core of completely callous individuals who account for an undue proportion of the accidents. Raise the age limit for driving licences; put the worst offenders, drunk or sober, off the roads for a very long time; and we might see some improvement. As for slogans, “One for the Crash” on every bottle might be as good as any.—Yours, etc., I LAM. December 13, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30933, 14 December 1965, Page 20
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