Letters: Roads don't kill people - people do

Emergency services at a crash scene. Photo / File

How can you expect to control the sky-high number of avoidable deaths on our roads when all it takes is to sit a little test and a drive around the block to be allowed to drive on the worst roads, in my view, in the Western World?

If you want to handle, let's say a CNC machine, which can be dangerous, you will have be given extensive training before you would be allowed to use it.

How can we expect the drivers to do the right things when they had no proper training?

Roads don't kill - people do.

Chris Vetter
Tauranga

Concentrate on facts

Well written letter by Aaron Brown (Letters, July 22), taking out the fear mongering and concentrating on the facts.

The war on drugs has been failing for nearly 50 years and will keep on failing. New Zealand can lead the way in this and block out the gangsters.

W Kehoe
Katikati

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