SIR — One of your readers, commenting on the tragic accident at Carhampton last week, professes to attach no blame to the motorcycle rider then implies exactly that.

Using words like revving and roaring, she immediately decides that they are threats to all living things and "They must be stopped'.

I know facts have no place in ignorant prejudice, but the majority of road traffic collisions involving motorcycles are the fault of car drivers, whose usual excuse, "I didn't see him" (despite the fact that they look you in the eye and still pull out) is now prompting possible EU regulation to make us dress up like fluorescent bananas. Blaming the victims.

In my opinion, as a professional driver and rider who has clocked up over half a million miles all over the world, the most dangerous drivers on the road are the breed that seem to think that 28mph in a 40 limit and 35 on de-restricted roads is in some way safe. 

Their selfishness cause bunching up and frustration in competent drivers and riders who actually have to get somewhere more important than their flower arranging class - people who have jobs and appointments to keep.

This is compounded by a highways department with gallons of white paint to waste and thousands of pounds of our money to spend on ugly signage and "safety initiatives".

Why not do the "dumbing down" job properly? Restrict everything to walking pace and solve unemployment at a stroke, bring back the man with the red flag. 

Dennis Blackmore,