When I was liv­ing in Stam­ford, Con­necti­cut, USA, I was on the I-95 head­ing to Mys­tic for the week­end. Sud­den­ly, a car jet­ted past mine and every car on the high­way, go­ing well above the 65 mph speed lim­it.I didn't have a chance to blink be­fore sirens blared and a State Troop­er's car emerged from a thick­et of trees on the side of the high­way and gave chase be­hind the speed­ing car.

All the rec­om­men­da­tions be­ing giv­en by the ex­perts and the pub­lic alike are great. De­fen­sive dri­ving is an ex­cel­lent one, but here's the glitch. I know and I'm sure many in the pub­lic know, of quite a few peo­ple who've tak­en de­fen­sive dri­ving cours­es and still dri­ve reck­less­ly on the roads. Some re­al speed demons they are. They ap­par­ent­ly live in the land of ju­ve­nile fic­tion called The Fast and the Fu­ri­ous 1 thru 6.

If we want to pro­tect our chil­dren, pre­serve the lives of our in­no­cents who are on the road, then this gov­ern­ment will have to do just like any ca­pa­ble gov­ern­ment does and en­force al­ready ex­ist­ing laws be­cause laws on­ly look good on pa­per un­less put to use.What doesn't look good? Dead bod­ies in cas­kets of lives snuffed be­fore they even have lived. The peo­ple of T&T are do­ing their chil­dren a great dis­ser­vice by not clam­our­ing for cops on the high­ways, more tick­ets for speed­ing and drunk­en dri­ving be­ing writ­ten, and greater pro­tec­tion for our fam­i­lies who tra­verse the roads of the na­tion every day.I bet the peo­ple of this peace­ful na­tion that if every sin­gle one of them were to take a re­li­gious vo­tive can­dle and stand vig­il on the side of the high­ways every night un­til this sleepy gov­ern­ment pays at­ten­tion, they will be sur­prised at their in­ter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty through sense­less loss from ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dents.Go on. Give it a try. Make the gov­ern­ment lis­ten.

Mar­sha Ram­sa­roop,

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