Our tragic loss prompts a reminder to road users (From Warrington Guardian)

Our tragic loss prompts a reminder to road users

IT'S TIME again to remind all road users to take greater notice of all safety rules and precautions.

As many people are killed on our roads this time of the year we must all be constantly aware of our responsibilities to cut this toll.

The continuous carnage is essentially due to thoughtless selfish irresponsible behaviour of morons who are totally oblivious to others on the road.

The results of the actions of these selfish egocentric idiots are seen each and every day, leaving trails of grief in their wake.

The common factor underlying deaths on the road is unbridled speed and it will continue because punishment for such killings is derisory and has no deterrent value at all. It should be a total driving ban. Of course that won't happen so the killing and ensuing grief goes on.

We know all about this as our son, David, was killed by an act of dangerous driving on December 13, 1996 as he was walking along the pavement in Shavington.

Punishment, a six-month driving ban. How's that for a deterrent?! The ache of grief deepens and is unbearable at this time of year.

Thousands of people suffer this ache and at the end of this Christmastide there will be more.

Why should this be accepted as inevitable?

Perhaps this letter will prompt a conscience or two and save a life. I hope so.

I trust you will print my letter and the poem, which I have written to express my thoughts, as I remember each year that terrible day that took away our David forever.

Speed - Cancer of the Road - Kills

Friday, December 13, 1996

In my mind's eye

I see him

Walking, light of heart

Blithely,

Happily he walked

Step so light

Happiness

In the Winter's sun.

Came that Bat out of hell!

In my mind's eye

I see him

Reeling, cleft of heart

Cruelly,

Madly, he was thrust

Out of sight.

Black sadness.

We had lost our son.

PROFOUND PAIN PERSISTS, SUFFOCATES THE MIND.

Brydon Bostock

Freshfields

Wistaston