Let’s stop messing around and get serious.

Let’s triple the fines for speeding.

Let’s enact and strictly enforce tailgating laws.

Let’s make reading anything while driving illegal.

Let’s ban radios, cassette players, CBs, etc., from vehicles.

Let’s make it illegal to eat or drink in a vehicle, even coffee.

Let’s not stop at seatbelts. Let’s require helmets, safety vests, knee pads and steel-toed boots when operating a motor vehicle.

Let’s make driving with one hand illegal. Both hands on the wheel.

Let’s make it our goal to eliminate all traffic accidents by the year 2525 … if man is still alive … if woman can survive (from “In the Year 2525 (Exordium et Terminus),” recorded in 1969 by pop-rock duo of Zager and Evans).

John Johnson

Winthrop