Road toll
Sir.—l am concerned, and feel it is significant, that, of the four names in the road toll article- in “The Press" this morning, only one was over 25 years of age. This week-end my teen-age. motor-cyclist son connected at an intersection with a car driven by a young woman. Unlike the young people in -your paper’s list of dead, both lass and lad were only bruised and shocked. If this carnage continues, so many of our young people will not live long enough to learn the lessons of life by experience. Those people killed on our roads are fortunate; not so the thousands injured, some maimed for the rest of their lives. Their relatives and friends are left behind to pay the price. There must .be quick legislation to prevent needless death on our roads and suffering in our homes. Why should New Zealand women rear children to be road accident statis-
tics while comparatively young?—Yours, etc.. MARGARET MANNING. January 18, 1982.
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