The Editor, Sir:

I have just read Hartley Neita's 'This Day in Our Past', published December 11, and have noted the following item taken from the feature:

"In 1958 - Forty-year-old Aston Raphael of Chestnut Lane in Kingston will not be able to drive a motor vehicle until he is 70 years old. Resident Magistrate V.K.G. McCarthy tells him, 'you have no business on the road, and it is, therefore, my duty to keep you off the road for as long as possible to protect other users who should not be menaced by people like you.'

Raphael is found guilty of dangerous driving, driving under the influence of alcohol, driving without a carrier's licence, operating his vehicle contrary to the terms of his licence, and for carrying excess passengers. On November 15, he collided with a boy-cyclist, injuring him, ending up against a high-tension electric pole and injuring the three passengers in his van."

My question to you is simply this: Why was this treatment not continued after 1958? If it had been, I think thousands of humans would be alive today.

I am, etc.,

KARL ORRETT

P.O. Box 1440

Kingston 8