Driving safety

EDITORIAL – Definition of ‘using’ phone while driving needs to be clarified

February 15, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DID YOU HEAR THE ONE about the trucker who got a fine? Nothing to do with freedom convoys. A trucker was driving from Chilliwack to Kamloops [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Bring the hammer down on idlers and other road rules abusers

January 12, 2021 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DRIVING LAWS SHOULD BE easy to obey and, yet, so many of us take them as mere suggestions. Some examples today. First up, listen to this [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Some advice for road rage idiots who think it’s all about them

November 12, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I had just pulled up to a red light at the intersection at the bottom of Summit Drive when my truck stalled and [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Those who enable unfit drivers should be equally liable

October 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A SAD COURT CASE in the Kootenays highlights the issue of drivers who continue to get behind the wheel when they have no business doing so. [Continue]

GINTA – There is room for improvement in road safety

August 20, 2019 // 1 Comment

IT MAKES ME THINK of a game of peek-a-boo every time I see it. A police officer with a radar gun hides behind a tree or an object big enough to hide his or her presence. If [Continue]

GINTA – Common sense can make our roads safer, but that’s not enough

July 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

THERE IS HARDLY a week or weekend that goes by without news of car crashes on our highways or within city limits. One too many of them are fatal. Whether you are a driver, [Continue]