Solutions to epidemic of bad driving

Those caught driving without a valid license or insurance should be automatically incarcerated and their vehicle permanently confiscated. Harsh, yes, but our current policy of wrist-slapping obviously doesn't work.

It's time for us, as a society, to develop a backbone and start setting firm limits and enforcing them. Operating a motor vehicle is not an inalienable right, and the amount of maiming and killing occurring on our streets is a disgrace!

Kathy Yukl

La Crescenta

I could feel the pain in the letter written by Janine Bonn about her friend who was hit by a car while walking ("City needs to invest in safer driving," Oct. 5). As an accident investigator, I have seen how devastating a pedestrian-involved collision can be.

Bonn writes the responsibility lies with the driver if it's the walker that is the one going to the hospital or morgue. So how does a person out for a stroll improve their chances of returning in one piece? A blind fold is the solution.

No, no, not for you, for the people driving out there. Just look straight at the car and imagine the driver is blind folded. That driver can't see you. He won't stop. She'll turn right crossing over your foot.

I find that when I drive blind folded I hit things and people. If every driver you see is wearing a blind fold, fewer of them will hit the bulls-eye — you.

Tim Jagoe

La Crescenta