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February 20, 2008

When driving pay attention to roads, avoid risks

I read an article in The Sun written by Matt Murphy on Feb. 9 concerning some Beacon Hill lawmakers requiring elderly drivers to pass a vision and road test before a license renewal. The senator who refiled this bill is Sen. Brian Joyce. Then Gov. Deval Patrick interjects with: "No disrespect to seniors, but public safety has to come first."

How magnanimous of our esteemed governor and some of our state legislators to show this legitimate concern, but aren't we forgetting something that is of equal importance if not more, namely: "drunken drivers"? We all know how some of our liberal judges just issue a reprimand and then release these individuals back on the road again. Some of these drunken drivers have been arrested not once but as much as 10 or more times. And they are still driving on a street where you live.

Why doesn't our governor and the state legislators get together and work to change the law that keeps putting these offenders back on our roads? Isn't this a more serious menace than spending time trying to weed out elderly drivers? And while they are at it, they should also do something about these liberal judges. They are the ones who see these drunken drivers appear before them time and time again and release them with a fine and a slap on the wrist!
Mr. Murphy's article also stated statistics that showed younger drivers had fewer fatalities than elderly drivers. Maybe it is because they killed themselves more than they killed or injured others. Yet, right on the front page of the Tuesday, Feb. 12, Sun, it showed an allegedly drunk 19-year-old speeding down the road at 80 mph and killing a passenger who was standing in the road near a disabled vehicle. What about the young teen who with four or five of her young passengers hit a tree at high speed and all were killed? How about the two young men who were chasing each other on the Connector and caused the death of a young pregnant woman?

So, come on all you seniors, middle-agers and young drivers. Let's use a vehicle for what it was meant to be used and that is getting from point A to point B in the safest manner possible. We must all also remember to have respect for the sanctity of human life. Otherwise we are no better than predators who seek out and destroy their prey. Perhaps the emphasis should be placed on retesting our conscience instead of retesting at the RMV. If we choose not to try to understand this simple but good advice, then I might as well lock myself in at home and throw away the key.

Posted by Admin at February 20, 2008 3:38 PM