Reader Letters: HGV tailgating, average speed cameras and healthy cyclists
Correspondence of the week
Pain in the rear
The authorities should recognise the danger caused by being tailgated by HGVs (often continental lorries) when motorists are trying to keep to the restricted speed limits. Do cameras pick up these aggressive menaces? If so, are they prosecuted?
Graham Goodbarne, Hutton, Essex
Double trouble
Duncan Stewart (“Against the clock”, Letters, April 17) should beware: average-speed cameras do have the facility to record your maximum speed as you pass — as a colleague found out to his cost!
Philip Nash, Hook, Hampshire
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Wheel of fortune
John Murphy says cyclists should pay no road tax (“Earnings cycle”, Letters, April 10). Can I add that all that pedalling means that we cyclists are considerably fitter than the national average, and thus save the NHS a fortune in treatment of obesity and lifestyle-related diseases.
Chris Day, Kidlington, Oxfordshire
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