Dear Editor,

I refer to two editorials in your newspaper, one on May 12 (‘Death by dangerous driving’), about road deaths and the other on May 14 (‘A killing time’), about murders.

In the case of murders, many murderers walk the streets free because of poor police investigation. In the case of death by dangerous driving, many of the ‘killer’ drivers are held by the police for some hours then released, after which nothing more is heard of the matter, and the driver continues to blaze the road.

Such drivers know that the chances of facing the magistrate or judge after they are released by the police initially are extremely thin, so they continue with their dangerous driving. As I said in an earlier letter if a survey were done to see how many persons died on the road through accidents and how many of the cases reached a court of law in the last seven years, the finding would be frightening.

Yours faithfully,
WP George