Enactment of vehicular homicide law is timely!

Dear Editor,
A traffic incident that took place just hours ago makes the enactment of the vehicular homicide law a timely intervention. This law could not have come sooner, as it addresses the very same issue that we have been debating for years on now. Drunk driving or being behind the wheel of a motor vehicle when someone is intoxicated, is the cause for so many innocent lives being lost on our roads. It is an endemic situation that has plagued society for too long and I dare say if not curbed immediately, would demoralise this country.
The footage brought to us by popular journalist “The Critic” is a case in point. Here we have the scene of a deadly accident, and from all the visible signs of those involved in this accident, were either drunk or partially impaired. What is of note is the belligerent way one member of that drunken melee, could have walked up to The Critic and physically assault him. It shows the presumptuous nature of the offending party, in that although she was in the wrong, she brazenly believes that no one had the right to record the matter.
This is a personification of lawlessness, and it tells you the depths to which we have sunken, where rude and obnoxious behaviour has become a norm. To add insult to injury, her male friend, instead of cautioning her in her foul deed, was out berating Critic for doing his legitimate duties!
Now, in my book the entire bunch of hooligans should have been arrested and taken to a medical institution to be tested for their blood alcohol level and charges imposed immediately. If needs be, passports should be seized until the matter is resolved. I am calling for stringent rules for our roads and the stamping out of this sort of lawlessness forthwith!
As a developing nation, such forms of lawlessness must be addressed swiftly and condignly. Decency, law and order has to be restored to our roadways now!

Respectfully,
Neil Adams