Answers are obvious, but carnage continues

IN view of the ongoing and apparently worsening road carnage, I have a few questions for Bertie Ahern, Martin Cullen, Gay Byrne and anyone else who might be able to come up with the answers.

Why can anyone without driving experience buy a driver’s licence? The fact that it is provisional is irrelevant.

Why can a person who fails a driving test just drive away?

Why can anyone decide to be a driving instructor and pass on his or her peculiar idea of good driving?

Why do we import cars that are capable of travelling at twice and three times the speed limit?

Why can’t we scrap the driving test and be compelled instead to complete a fixed number of supervised driving hours with driving schools approved by government (thereby creating a uniform standard)?

Why can’t we be granted a trainee licence for this purpose, without which private car insurance would be unobtainable?

Why can’t the NCT demand that all cars be speed restricted so that they are rendered incapable of breaking the maximum limit?

Why does the Government not stand up to the car industry like they did to the tobacco industry?

Why does the Government not have the courage to do some or all of these things now?

Why do so many people have to die when the answers are so obvious?

Why?

Ken Lynch

79 Templeacre Ave

Gurranebraher

Cork