Comments on: The menace behind the wheel

By: mimi

mimi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:14:36 +0000

That’s terrible, I can’t believe that someone rammed into them like that. Their poor parents, it must be absolute hell for them.

By: Elisabeth Loesch

Elisabeth Loesch — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:34:39 +0000

This is so sad. How are the parents of these little girls going to carry on? What kind of support system do they have to get through the hour, the day, the night? Often when tragedy strikes, you become stigmatized and ostracized. People desert you at a time when you most need them. Not because they don-t care but because they don-t want or can-t deal with a grief they could very well experience one day too. So they look the other way. As a way to protect themselves from the pain. Hopefully I-m wrong and in Dubai things work out differently. If it-s not the case maybe The National could tackle that subject too?

By: Cate Dubai

Cate Dubai — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:55:03 +0000

The National is so right in starting this campaign, Helena, but it isn’t going to be easy. Until we have a police force fully staffed with Nationals at police patrol level, individuals who are respected, motivated and have authority, and until there are sufficient police patrols on the roads actively engaged in deterring erant drivers, little is going to change. Then there’s the huge issue of cultural differences and people’s approach to road safety. Thousands of pedestrians are killed daily on the roads in SE Asia, including Indonesia where the maids came from, because wandering down the middle of a busy road or darting out in front of a truck is the norm. You know where these three little girls were killed, would you ever dream of attempting to cross that road there? No. But people from elsewhere in the world would and how on earth does the government even begin to educate them? I fear it’s going to be an uphill struggle.