It’s time to get tough on souped-up cars

I AM delighted the number of deaths on Irish roads is significantly down on the same period for last year. However, although this is welcome news, I fear this trend is unlikely to continue.

A situation has now been allowed to develop where a generation of 16- and 17-year-old children are allowed to live out their fantasies of performing feats of speed and bravery in souped-up cars on public roads. I refer, of course, to so-called ‘boy racers’.

Consider the following: