Easter Road Toll

"To me it's eight hours at a scene, dealing with the relatives for months, years afterwards ... picking up pieces of bodies, pieces of flesh, zipping up body bags with young people in them - it can be fairly horrific."

While some of us are preparing for Easter, the police, ambulance personnel , fire brigade and hospitals are preparing themselves mentally and emotionally for the Easter road toll. There shouldn't be a road toll. There is no need. There is a lot of good advice out there about how to avoid being a statistic . Much of it comes down to foolish decisions. Dumb moves and peer pressure. There is so much the community has done to mobilise common sense and practical responses to people who are apt to make driving a lethal activity. The police, ambulance personnel, the fire brigade and hospitals just keep on going out there. They all play there part. They all have a job to do...and then the police have to knock on the door and deliver the news. They should all be spared this constant trauma.I should like to think we can have a road toll free Easter and just have Easter... so all these people can have Easter too.