‘Who can argue that people’s lives are less important than speeding from A to B?’

• I AM writing this on the third Sunday in November which is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

Not many people will know there is such a day, and that’s because we have come to accept road tragedies as a part of “normal” life.

But it’s not normal for the people touched last year in London alone by the deaths of 102 people who were killed and the 3,859 people seriously injured.

By the time you read this we will be coming towards the end of Road Safety Week 2023 (on Saturday), which is organised by the charity Brake, and we hope that the message about speeding vehicles has got through and that there are many more people alive this week than there would have been in a “normal” week.

But wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to have a special week once a year highlighting the fact that five people are killed on United Kingdom roads every day?

One of the benefits of LNs, liveable neighbourhoods, is implicit in the name. Reducing the number of vehicles and reducing the speed of the remaining vehicles does reduce the number of collisions, deaths and serious injuries, and makes the area literally “more liveable”.

Who can argue that people’s lives are less important than speeding from A to B?

Please continue to take care on the roads.

JOHN HARTLEY
Address supplied, N1