Traffic tragedy

When are we going to sit up and take note of the tragedies that happen on our roads every day?

Only this week we’ve read about a Bahraini family losing seven members in a car accident in Saudi and 28 labourers being injured in one fell swoop right here in Bahrain. To pack that many people into the back of a truck with nothing but a few planks of wood nailed to the sides is inhumanly cruel, not to mention unbelievable dangerous.
The saddest thing about it is that it’s not illegal. My understanding of the law here is that it is permissible to herd people around like cattle as long as there is a cover on the back of the truck — hence the planks of wood. There doesn’t seem to be any necessity to give them a handle to hold on to and in many cases they don’t even put in seating for them to sit on.
Despite the fact that it is impossible to take even the shortest journey here without seeing workers in the back of open trucks, I have never in the seven years I have lived here seen the traffic police pull them over and point out the fact that they are breaking the law.
It’s shameful and the only blessing I can see out of the whole thing is that so far it is still relatively rare to hear of deaths caused by the way these workers are being transported...so far.