Road safety can be achieved with better laws
I am writing about road safety because of your report about speeding accidents ( Eighteen killed in speeding accidents between January and November in Dubai, December 15). It is not the speeding that the report describes that kills.
It is that cars drive at different speeds and move between the dotted lines on the roads. When you add cars driving fast with cars that drive very slow such as mini vans and small lorries you get a lethal combination on the roads that must be addressed. Casper Morgenstern, Dubai Some objective reporting would help rather than just accepting the statistics that things are improving on the roads. For example, why is there still no law requiring children to be buckled in? Why are lorries that are overladen and spitting out black soot allowed on the road? Dean Brooks, Dubai To fix this problem there must be more undercover patrols on the roads. They do this sometimes in Abu Dhabi and they should do it more. Also there should be point-to-point radars to calculate average speed to kill off those who drive very fast between radar checkpoints. Gianmaria Vidale, Abu Dhabi We need more police presence on the roads and enforcement of rules along with harsh punishments such as fines depending on the salary of the offender. This way the fines will act as a deterrent. For repeat offenders, there should be even bigger penalties such as jail time. Wiltrud Matthes, Dubai We all see dangerous driving on the roads on a daily basis. The way to stop it is for people to break the habit of tailgating and start using their mirrors and indicators along with learning road manners as well as using seat belts in the front and back. Debbie McEwan, Dubai