A lot of  people  were shocked  with a triple accident  occurred the other day. Ruslan Kutelia’s two sons died in a vehicle crash, the youngest became 18 that day. It is even just   horrible to hear it, one can imagine  parents’  infinite grief.

The public repeatedly sounded the alarm, warning that the overall driver death rate  is coming to the rate of killed during the war, but even these extreme figures have not changed anything.

Outrage on the roads grows, just the representatives of   “short fence” are fined, but “favorites” drive like crazy Schumachers. It can be observed also at the daytime, but crazy night races start with darkness, increasing  impunity as GAI posts  remain  only  on the roads and their  locations are  usually known.

          They run around even in the town line, I see it often walking along Codor Highway between 9 and 10 in the evening. Usually three or four cars run one by one passing normal drivers and creating emergency situations almost every two - three hundred meters. And no one pays attention to it, though rumors about night races are quite widely known. This connivance allows young not experienced people to consider that nothing bad is in it if they strongly step on the accelerator.  

         A vehicle crash occurred in Gagra region is a model   when three young people being slightly drunk drove in the direction of Gagra. Their destiny in the role of GAI stopped them twice, but every time one of them phoned to someone and very soon  traffic  policemen   got back rings  to release gallant horsemen and the end was natural: in ten minutes all three, not reaching the town using inadmissible speed flew out into the other world. I wonder if the person who helped them to escape from  traffic policemen wakes sometimes up in  cold sweat remembering that he sent them to death with his own hands.

         In several days will be the second year of commemoration of Dima Chukbar’s death, the member of t Sukhum City Assembly, who  died on a night road not far from Psou. This young man unlike others working in the City Assembly was the hope of those who knew him. He was educated, energetic, and was not afraid to express his opinion; he seemed to become future a politician and  a civilized  state builder. But Dima liked high  speed driving   and he died at the very beginning of his  maturity rise.

         One may recite such tragic stories   long - they are too many to  be forgotten. What must happen   in order   the society’s conscience   will change and  rapid driving will not be considered as a sign of valor?

           Parents, whom this misery has not touched yet, don’t you hear the cry over the graves of another’s children? Do you give the keys of   vehicles to underage yet? Do you use a telephone right to free your children from responsibility, which protects them from death?

 

    And you, young candidates to self-killers, whom do you show off  at the  wheel? Is it  the old woman with a scythe?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Nadezhda Venedictova