I've done it! I believe you've done it. All of us who drive have done it. You arrive at a corner, look right, nothing coming and look left, nothing coming.

Re-check right as you start to move forward. Hell! Where did that car come from? I thought it was clear. Eighty per cent of crashes are caused by lack of sighting according to the insurance industry.

I raise this as we look set to kill another 300 people and put thousands into our overloaded hospitals this year!

Our rate of highway deaths and injuries is double and triple that of overseas countries on a population basis. It can be radically improved with two effective measures. The Government must make it mandatory for all vehicles to have headlights on when the engine starts and turn off when it stops.

In Scandinavia this is law - the road toll is under half of ours - despite a wild climate and strong drinking culture.

Drinking brings me to the second point. The Government must make confiscation of all vehicles, caught in the hands of anyone found over the alcohol limit, mandatory.

Regardless of who owns it, the vehicle is taken and sold. The murder weapon - the vehicle - is removed from the potential murderer - the driver - permanently. This would halve the road carnage immediately.

K Evans, Tauranga City.