THE EDITOR, Sir:
LET US face it - we all know them, almost as well as they know themselves.
We drive with them on these roads every day. We see them on their vicious missions, vying with each other in recklessness for personal glory at the cost of childrens' and other innocent peoples' lives.
There they are every day in their mini-buses, 'route' taxis etc., and they are easily recognised.
You hear them before you see them, the loud booming, obscene bawling and screaming of their 'music' coming at you like a weapon, followed by the actual vehicle from hell, tearing out of the line of traffic behind you.
You see them swerving back into the line far ahead of you if they make it, two and three of them one behind the other down Long Lane on the right hand side of the road in the morning, or on Hope Road or any other busy road.
They must get you behind them, and you can just swallow it and meekly go on your way, grateful that your car and life have been spared. They laugh at the police as they go.
The school children are their audience and, in these drivers' eyes, they are these children's heroes.
I myself know them very well, for they are all the same: stupid, crude, self-centred, indisciplined excuses for human beings. Our children's killers, driving them to school.
Police, get on them now, you can gather them up in groups, there are so many of them that you can't miss them. But if you don't get them now, they will get you and us, and our children.
May the peace of God comfort and be with those who have lost their loved ones to these rampant road killers.
I am, etc.,
L. DUPERROUZEL
33 Waterloo Mews
Kingston 10
