""I repeat, most accidents on motorways are not caused by drivers who have just passed their test""

Leaving aside the question of accidents which encompass a number of groups including HGVs, car delivery drivers, white van men, and occasionally new drivers, from experience both leisure and professional, the unchallenged champions of disgracefully bad driving are the sales reps who consider their work to be more important than the lives of those who share their driving environment.

Overtaking, tailgating, undertaking and cutting across three or even four lanes for a last split second exit over the junction cross hatching, and all this at between eighty and ninety mph. Or joining the motorway at eighty and carving across to the fast lane, oblivious of the massive blind spot caused by the jacket hanging from a hook over the offside rear door. They have no limit on driving hours and must supply a sizeable proportion of the numbers of sleepers who hit the barriers.

Dick is dead right about the major causes of accidents.

Don T.