I blame the feral response to National’s announcement – that they will not be dropping the legal blood alcohol limit to 0.05 g% – squarely on the media. I am certain that it is the media’s propensity always to give the maximum amount of airtime and newsprint to the most hysterical over-reaction that encourages people [...]

Once more the media appear to be wading in to the campaign to lower the legal driving limit for blood alcohol to 0.05%. Strangely, they quote the recent spate of road traffic fatalities as if this somehow bolsters their argument. This is simply lazy journalism. There is plenty of evidence that lowering the legal Blood [...]

There is a sad story about a cyclist who came off his bicycle into the path of an oncoming truck. He is in hospital in a stable condition. My interest is piqued by the typical responses of the motorist and the cyclists. First the cyclists: One competitor, Kenny Chia, told the Herald on Sunday the [...]