In an article on page 3 of Friday 15 Weekend Sun, all Tauranga drivers are labelled as ‘ignorant' of the rules of the road by both the Tauranga Road Safety Coordinator (who actually employs her?) and the Acting Senior Sergeant in charge of the Western BOP road policing.
They say that ‘lots of people haven't looked at the road code since they sat their license.' How would they know that?
If it were true, then there may be a very good reason for it – of which the officials themselves may be ignorant.
It currently costs around $25 to buy a copy of the Road Code.
Why would drivers pay that for something they have already paid the Government to produce, in terms of income tax, petrol excise duty and GST? And pay $25 again and again every time the Code becomes out of date?
If the authorities really want to improve road safety, they could start by making the Road Code available for free.
J Dent, Tauranga.