Comments like this are simple easy cliches that just will not do and debase the seriousness of the issue.

I'm delighted that this driver never saw an accident for 14 years - how lucky, and how rare.

If she would like to look on the campaign team's website, she can see pictures of accidents that have occurred on this bend - just in the last few months alone - www.ablackspot.co.uk.

If it was just drivers and not the road, then accidents would occur along the whole stretch of road and not on this one bend known as 'the Gypsy bend'.

The council would not be spending £300,000 on improvements if this was so. And in fact this reader's comment about "the road has not changed" is also incorrect.

The bend has sunk and part of the engineering works will be to rebuild the edge and superelevate it.

One of the biggest problems with this blackspot is that drivers think there is nothing wrong with the road - just like Mrs Bryan.

Drivers then (and not necessarily at speed), take this bend inappropriately and either hit an oncoming vehicle (as was my experience, a driver took the bend at speed crossed the road, killed my dear wife and seriously injured me), or they loose control trying to correct their mistake as they travel around the bend, often ending up inverted in the dyke.

Educating drivers to this bend is really important if we want to stop the fatalities that continue to occur every year at this location.

ROY ASHTON,
Member of the ABS Team