Editor:
I have had enough of a portion of our driving public. Over the last couple of years we have had no fewer than two fawns and a doe killed in front of our home – a stretch of 50 metres and in the middle of a half km straight stretch on Redrooffs Road. When another fawn was hit by a car the other day in that same stretch of road, that was it.
It’s a beautiful sunny late afternoon with three people walking within a few feet of the doe and her fawn, and along comes a car with a driver totally oblivious to her surroundings. This is a residential road with a 50 km/hr speed limit, not a highway. The common sense thing for the driver would be to slow down and give the people and animals on the road a little space. No – she plows through and hits the fawn. As she glides to a stop a ways down the road, she evaluates the entire situation in her rear view mirror and miraculously is able to drive off feeling there is no issue and she has done the right thing.
This is not rocket science – it is common sense. Drive defensively and be aware of what is around you. We have seen too many incidents in the news lately where people are hit with tragic consequences. The death of wildlife on Redrooffs Road is far too frequent and in many cases simply because people drive with no regard to what is going on around them. The excessive speed and the reckless nature of some drivers will no doubt be a prelude to when a person will be the next victim.
Tom Sinclair, Halfmoon Bay
