Cycling death

I am devastated by the recent, awful death of a good friend who gave in his lifetime a great deal to his community. He was killed near his home on the battlefields that represent our roads while cycling. He was a careful and experienced rider who never acted irrationally. It’s not good enough.

In Portugal, where we cycled hundreds of kilometres, the law is that any motorist who strikes and harms or kills a pedestrian or cyclist will be locked up there and then until it is proven that the victim was at fault. I would back any political party that wrote that into its policies.

Jeremy Dunningham, Napier.