""Most "accidents" are caused by carelessness, stupidity, recklessness and overweening confidence, not misfortune. Driving recklessly, especially while ratrunning through residential areas, is quite as criminal as dropping a concrete block from a bridge.""

You will of course be able to supply evidence as to that assessment that "MOST" accidents are the fault of drivers, rather than kids darting out into the road, or stupid halfwits who are lost in a world of their own with a phone clamped either to one ear or to a pair of thumbs.

"Careless driving" is so called because it is unintentional, else it would be called "reckless", or "dangerous", and is obviously a lesser offence than attempted murder.

You and the rather sick Mr Campin need to get, first your facts, then your priorities right.

I try hard not to be involved in accidents when I'm driving, yet twenty years ago I had a pedestrian go from my bonnet to the roof and land on the road behind my car. He was running across a London street to catch a bus and didn't even notice me. According to the policeman in the car behind me, who almost ran over him, I was doing twelve miles per hour and he reckoned the pedestrian was travelling much faster.

According to Jack Campin I would be as great a criminal as those dropping concrete on cars, which says quite a lot about his mental capacity.

Incidentally, I am one of those proles (proles DO drive cars) and the pedestrian was a middle class civil servant in bowler and pinstripes. I suppose, in Jack's twisted view that might make him fair game.

As to the A12 would be murderers, it makes me wish for a return of the old punishments, such as breaking up rocks for hardcore. Ten years of that would cut the cost of building and render the recipients much less likely to re-offend.

Don T.