VRT testing

A few months ago, in reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Labour MP Adrian Vassallo, Transport Minister Censu Galea stated that out of a total of 102,314 vehicles that were VRT tested, 7,127 had failed the test.

Surely the information passed on to the minister was all mixed up. As a matter of fact, I would have rather said that 7,127 only passed the test!

As a frequent driver, one tends to observe the blatant failings of cars that are driven on our roads.

Cars that have no brake lights at all, or with luck only one that functions when the driver applies the brakes are all too frequent. Spent-out rear lights is another serious hazard which needs urgent attention.

Silencers are there only in name and do not silence the noise emitted from the engine.

Every night one encounters a single bright light approaching one's car, only to discover that that light is part of a "one-eyed lethal weapon" on four wheels, and not that of a motorcycle.

All vehicles in Malta have at one time or other passed a VRT test, so how is it that licences are still issued against such scandalous tests.

Someone in high authority must surely answer to these glaring failings even if chauffeur driven.