The statement of a law enforcement officer, highlighted by the media, to lower the speed limit shows a degree of irrationality bordering on hysteria.

Eight people were killed in four separate accidents in a recent weekend. Logic would suggest that these accidents were caused by four people making errors of judgment. It has not yet been established that speed was the cause and yet the cry is to lower the speed limit, a limit conservative by many international standards.

At the time of the four mistakes there were probably at least 200,000 motorists (4.5 per cent of the population) on the country's roads, of whom 199.996 per cent did not, at that time, make fatal errors.

Should all motorists in the country be limited for these four errors?

Bryan Johnson, Omokoroa. .