We need better drivers, better roads, better policing

IN response to your editorial (‘Speed kills, so slow down’, February 5), I find the views expressed lacking in thought and, unfortunately, all too similar to the rhetoric we hear from various campaigners like Gay Byrne.

To attribute accidents to excessive speed is far too simplistic. There is no evidence that excessive speed was a factor in the recent accidents on the N7, where four people were killed, the N6, where two people lost their lives, or the accident near Ballineen in Co Cork, where one man died..

The essential ingredients for road safety are the “three Es” — Education, Engineering and Enforcement.