Sir, - The high rate of road accidents, with and without drunken driving, has been complacently tolerated by Government and governed for too long. Pain and loss cannot be quantified, but our car-driving and chauffeur-driven rulers should by now have taken firmer measures to reduce the appalling devastation.
In the case of the death of Anne Ryan the offender was sentenced by Judge Joseph Mathews to four years in prison and 12 years' disqualification from driving. I suggest that the sentence, far from meriting reduction, was too lenient. - Yours, etc.,
Prof George Huxley, School of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin 2.