The boy Button talks sense

Jenson Button - currently leading the F1 driver's championship - has always struck me as that fairly rare breed amongst racing drivers, a relatively normal bloke.

That's an impression reinforced by the boy Button's comments at a recent road safety event. You can read the full article on the ROSPA website, but the gist of what he's saying is that too many people are driving around not actually concentrating on what they're doing.

How true that is. How often do you see people pootling in the middle lane, or joining from a sliproad completely unaware of what's going on around them?

Driving isn't that hard a task, most people can manage it, but it does require concentration and consideration for everybody else on the road. If you can't manage that then maybe you should think about taking the bus and making the roads safer for the rest of us.

GOM