So I see in this morning's paper that we have another death on the roads overnight.

The government recently announced a significant amount of expenditure to make roads safer.

We can all accept that NZ has many unsafe, poorly designed roads and that sorting that out is a Good Thing.

However, by and large, vehicles do not randomly leave the road and hit poles, fall off bridges, drive into oncoming traffic etc etc. People make them do those things.

So why is the welcome improvement work on road design not being matched with work to improve the skills of the people doing the driving?

It is clearly even more necessary than the road improvement.