You report (July 7) that Joe M. Sammut demanded in Parliament that the government should issue a legal notice to abolish the "ridiculous" requirement that drivers should switch on the car lights when travelling through a tunnel. He went further to say that this was "demanded practically only in Malta".

With all due respect to the gentleman, it is his demand that I find ridiculous. I have driven extensively all over Europe for decades and the practice of switching on lights when travelling through tunnels, even in daytime, is universal.

Lights are useful to see and to be seen and cars travelling in tunnels without any lights, even if their drivers have cats' eyes, present a great danger to others, especially to cars joining a main road at a junction near the exit from a tunnel.