What will it take?

Why is it that we have to wait until countless people lose their lives before we act? Is our government so self-involved that they can’t see past their fat salaries and healthy “stipends” (a new term for “you owe me a favour”)? 

Distracted driving is becoming an epidemic, and whether we want to admit it or not, is quickly passing impaired driving as the leading cause of motor vehicle fatalities. Yet our transportation minister would seemingly rather up speed limits and create laws that force people to get of the way so speeders can speed without impediment, rather than focus on a law that might actually do some good or “save” lives. 

Just today, a co-worker on the way to work barely missed being hit head on by a young lady who clipped her car in the lane beside her and then spun across oncoming traffic, apparently as a result of texting. 

How many of the string of fatal crashes we have seen in the Okanagan lately were also related to distracted drivers and we just don’t know about it? 

I see it almost daily now someone talking or texting while driving, and the $160 fine is no deterrent what-so-ever as enforcement is virtually nonexistent. They need to make the law so severe that people dare not take the chance. I mean isn’t your “life” worth that? Mine certainly is! 

Impound their vehicle, take away their license for a year, do something that will deter this incredibly selfish behaviour before someone else has to die.

Keith Quesnel