![Malibu, California, Monday, October 23, 2023 - A view to the south near the 21600 block of Pacific Coast Highway, where four Pepperdine students were killed by a passing car. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4e40748/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1685+0+0/resize/1200x674!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F35%2F12%2F83e5bec64074962f2670a01fcc1a%2F1364962-me-1023-malibu-rcg-2200.jpg)
Getting a driver’s license in California is manner too straightforward. PCH deaths present that
Letters to the Editor
3 November 2023
To the editor: Over the previous yr, I’ve learn a number of articles about pedestrian and bicyclist deaths and critical accidents, most lately the tragic deaths of 4 faculty college students strolling on the Pacific Coast Freeway in Malibu. Many of those articles seek advice from harmful roads.
I feel they’re improper. The reason for all these incidents is usually poor driving, not harmful roads.
Just lately, Occasions columnist Steve Lopez wrote in regards to the critical inadequacy of the Division of Motor Autos’ written check. The DMV is failing us miserably by giving licenses far too simply to candidates.
This principle is confirmed on my every day 15-minute drive to work, surrounded by individuals behind the wheel who solely have a look at their telephones.
Bruce Gainsley, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: Requires extra “schooling and enforcement” needs to be a final resort and point out highway designs which have already failed.
Amongst developed international locations, america ranks No. 1 in site visitors dying charges, extra in keeping with former Soviet republics and three to 4 instances larger than international locations similar to Italy, Spain and France.
We will have safer, happier and extra people-centric cities than the car-centric ones we inherited by working with our native governments and organizations.
Edward Gonzales, La Crescenta
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To the editor: I ponder what would possibly occur if individuals driving 30-50 mph over the velocity restrict stopped to appreciate they’re aiming at a lethal multi-ton weapon able to killing or maiming harmless individuals.
Susan Greenberg, Los Angeles