As we reported a week ago the Prime Minister, on a visit to Rethymnon, made an impassioned plea for better road safety in Crete. The government can only do so much, he said, it is up to local authorities to help achieve a change in the culture so that lives are not needlessly lost: “Let me make an appeal to you,” he said. “We will do what should be done, but it is something which needs to become common property for us all, especially here in Crete where we have a tendency to be more ‘unruly’. And it relates particularly – I’m looking at the mayors here – to the mountainous areas where, especially in small villages, young kids take cars, tractors, motorbikes. Put some effort into it, for God’s sake. We can’t do everything by ourselves as the central power.”