Safety controls should involve parents, sisters, brothers, neighbors, fans, government officials, you, me, law enforcers and the media. What happens on the road is much like our rivers: full of garbage.

Eddy Arjuna Zainy

I think the control should come from parents and the kids themselves.

Tata Sari

If you drink and drive then you are a killer. If you are underage and drive then you are murderer. What is the difference between a murderer and a killer?

Henk Theo

In most civilized societies, parents/guardians take it as their moral responsibility to ensure that their children are driven to school, if no public transportation is available, rather than give them access to a deadly weapon.

In this particularly horrific case, an irresponsible parent has enabled his juvenile son to drive a car, in the middle of the night, on a major toll road, resulting in the deaths of six innocent people. This father'€™s apparent response was to offer, through a third party, a sum of money to the grieving relatives, as if that would somehow make up for his son'€™s criminal actions and by implication his own.

The driving license and urine test issues are of course the usual smoke screens that obscure one of the many problems that pervade life in this  country, which is a  lack of responsibility by those in authority, by and large the parents, who in the first place enable their children to acquire motor vehicles and then to drive them illegally on the roads, knowing full well that they have neither the experience, maturity or qualifications.

But who cares really, the deaths, rather like those during the Idul Fitri exodus, are mere statistics.

Graham H

When my kids were at school we had a school bus that collected the kids from the house.

When they first set it up it had collection points but hardly anyone used it '€” after all that would mean the kids walking a few hundred meters to a pick-up point or parents driving them there and blocking the road (which is what happened).  

Therein is yet another issue with public transportation, it is not door to door which again is what most Indonesians expect.  

Duncan Tan

Topic of the day Fatal traffic accident

A fatal traffic incident, which killed six people and involved a 13-year-old boy behind the wheel of one of the vehicles, has shown a lack of control over road safety. Who is to blame?

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