Road Deaths

July 4^th 2016

Mark Arum's column on road traffic deaths is very disturbing. If an enemy attacked our country and killed over 32,000 people we would be up in arms, yet this carnage goes on every year unchecked. The use of cells phone has had a disastrous impact on our highway safety as evidenced by the increase in deaths, yet people continue to use them regardless. Our laws don't seem to have any effect as evidenced by the number of people we witness driving in a distracted manner whilst trying to read or type on their phones. The technology exists to prevent use of a cell phone whilst driving. We need to insist that manufacturers build that protection into all devices that are causing the murder of innocent people by distracted scofflaws.