‘In recent times around 1,700 people have been killed on Britain’s roads every year’

• WITH the Christian churches having more or less exhausted the topics of gender and sexuality, and these also now ceasing to grip the public interest, is it not time for them to explore and oversee the more important areas of modern life, notably motoring lifestyles?

My suggestion is that they should now establish a bishop of road safety, whose job it would be to look at life and death on our roads.

In recent times around 1,700 people have been killed on Britain’s roads every year, over 50 of them children. Some 600 elderly folk are killed annually.

About 430 pedestrians perish. On average around 70 people die in “hit-and-run” incidents, all of these avoidable. In London more than 50 pedestrians die annually on local roads.

A bishop of road safety would have his or her work cut out dealing with themes like grief, injustice, indifference and the woeful culture of speed.

Perhaps a good start will be to determine the arcane legal difference between dangerous driving and careless driving.

ANTONY PORTER
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