Massaging of figures won’t end road carnage

ATTEMPTS by John Mallon (Letters, July 23) to downplay the grim facts around Ireland’s unremitting road carnage and relegate them to just another “hazard of life as we know it” are bit disingenuous to say the least.

The horrible spectre of road carnage is no trivial subject for playing around with figures or putting down to mere chance. The cumulative impact of the car culture on society at present has enough scary influence to consider it a social evil.

According to the WHO there are about 1.2 million people killed in road crashes every year, 10 million people are injured, costing an estimated $520 billion to the world economy.