Speed And Road Deaths

Sir, - How much longer is Irish society going to tolerate the present attitude towards the rate of deaths on our roads? We are…

Sir, - How much longer is Irish society going to tolerate the present attitude towards the rate of deaths on our roads? We are now permitting an average of 10 deaths a week. If this was the result of crime or terrorism there would be an unholy row and the powers-that-be would be forced to pretend to do something.

Most deaths appear to be the result of drink and excess speed, and the efforts put in to reduce these two forms of excess behaviour are derisory. How many more families have to be destroyed before we, as a society, insist that our politicians recognise that we are committing serial killing on a massive scale, and take the appropriate steps to reduce this devastation and waste? - Yours, etc.,

Colin G. Walker, Bernadette Place, Wexford.