Any, and every, report of serious road accidents brings to mind the fact that until recently a number of government examiners were accepting brown envelopes in return for providing driving licences without the applicant necessarily bothering to pass a test.

It might be appropriate, when serious accidents occur, to enquire whether the driver(s) involved actually passed a test or simply bought a licence.

In the latter case, surely, the so-called examiners should shoulder some of the blame and to a criminal degree. By the way, whatever happened to all those civil servants who were proved to be on the take and what became of the people who had bribed them?

Did any of them ever find their way to court? Or is that just another rhetorical question?