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| Susanna Rustin (Killer Drivers are the biggest stranger danger of all, 7 December) tells us that in 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald “perceived the sociopathic potential of driving”. But careless driving was not born with the motor car. In A Tale of Two Cities in 1859 Charles Dickens had written of the dangers of “hard driving” and describes an aristocrat in his horse-drawn coach being driven at a reckless speed, “with an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to understand in these days”. So when his coach kills a child, he obviously feels no remorse or fear of the law, telling the distraught father: “It is extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children.” He then speeds carelessly away, presumably to endanger and ruin more lives. So what’s new?Bill TordoffBedford | Susanna Rustin (Killer Drivers are the biggest stranger danger of all, 7 December) tells us that in 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald “perceived the sociopathic potential of driving”. But careless driving was not born with the motor car. In A Tale of Two Cities in 1859 Charles Dickens had written of the dangers of “hard driving” and describes an aristocrat in his horse-drawn coach being driven at a reckless speed, “with an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to understand in these days”. So when his coach kills a child, he obviously feels no remorse or fear of the law, telling the distraught father: “It is extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children.” He then speeds carelessly away, presumably to endanger and ruin more lives. So what’s new?Bill TordoffBedford |
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