Law enforcement has blood on its hands
ROODEPOORT – Local Roodepoort resident says authorities must enforce road traffic rules to avoid another bloody festive season.
Anonymous writes:
The 2016 festive period has come and gone with road accidents claiming more than 1 700 lives and many severely injured; a 5 per cent increase compared to the previous record.
Will it improve for the 2017 festive period? Not a chance.
Unless the authorities begin to enforce the road traffic rules now, the next festive period will claim yet another record amount of misery. It’s no use expecting those drivers, who knowingly or not, break the law every day of the year, to behave responsibly next December.
Start off by having traffic officers at busy intersections to observe those who jump the traffic lights or fail to obey directions and road markings, or enter the intersection when they have no chance of exiting it, thereby blocking the intersection. Traffic officers should not only observe the law, they should enforce the law.
This is a small step but at least it is a step in the right direction. By continuing not to do anything, those in authority have blood on their hands.
Enforce the laws which already exist and educate the offenders.
