After this paper carried front page reports about two devastating accidents in the city, we got a sarcastic email asking whether it was time for pedestrians to walk in Mumbai with helmets, and padded clothing, given the reckless driving we are seeing on our roads today. While that writer was making a scathing reaction to the news reports, it is evident that the sentiment is pervasive.

Pedestrians and innocent people are becoming targets of rash driving and reckless riders. On Tuesday, this paper ran a report about how a 59 year-old man driving back home to Thane from Bandra on Sunday, lost control of his vehicle on the Eastern Express Highway and crashed into seven other vehicles. H escaped with minor injuries, his wife was seriously injured. Cops are investigating if he was drunk at the time.