YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer, referring to traumatic brain injury (February 14), claims “the road safety campaign launched in 1998 has clearly been a success. The monthly fatality rate dropped from 39 per month in 1997 to 23 per month in 2008”.

YOU report Brian Farrell of the Road Safety Authority (August 3) as saying that “in terms of serious injuries, the figures show that travelling as a passenger in a car is one of the most dangerous things a child can do on any given day”.

THE president of the Vintners Federation of Ireland, Paul Stevenson, referring to the appointment of Gay Byrne as chair of the Road Safety Association, asked: “Who in their right mind would appoint someone over pension age?”

VINTNERS Federation president Paul Stevenson recently said in reference to the appointment of the head of the Road Safety Association — “who, in their right mind, would appoint someone over pension age?”