The Road Toll
Sir, —Five hundred persons, our relations, friends and neighbours, will die on the roads before Christmas. Cold facts show that those responsible for licensing and policing traffic have millions of words but no real solution. Alcohol is a menace, but has become a scapecoat and an excuse for apathy concerning the overwhelming fact: accidents are caused by those who flagrantly break the law, and the majority of motorists break the law every day. The answer is to reform the lawbreakers or get them off the roads, but those who speed and fail to give way deliberately are treated more leniently than those offending through momentary lapses. Recently a magistrate defended a persistent speedster against the police, who had rightly charged that 55 miles an hour in a built-up area might have been dangerous. “Attempted manslaughter” should be a major traffic crime.—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. January 22, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31275, 23 January 1967, Page 12
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