Drinking Drivers
Sir, —I give my strongest possible support to the recommendations of the Waikato
division of the Medical Association asking for more adequate legislation to deal with the drunken driver. For other potentially dangerous elements in society, the police are given extra powers to protect the public and to ensure the early apprehension of offenders (such as the use of firearms). The courts are responsible for seeing that such elements are removed from a position of possible menace to the public and, perhaps, reformed. If 50 to 70 per cent of drivers involved in accidents are intoxicated then the most dangerous and lethal single element of society is the drunken driver. What an anomaly their present light treatment is.— Yours, etc.,
C. H. ALDRIDGE. Hokitika, September 6, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32396, 8 September 1970, Page 12
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