Carnage on the roads

Today’s Royal Gazette reports that 13 road deaths in 2006 rank Bermuda’s roads as the most dangerous in the western world. Bermuda’s death rate of 21 per 100,000 residents ranks well ahead of the US (15/100,000) and the UK (6/100,000). The paper blames widespread flouting of drink driving laws, a lack of speed cameras, no points system for driving offences, bad driving, poor policing and inefficient courts.