I READ with interest, and not a little amusement, Neil Thompson’s letter (Oxford Mail ViewPoints, June 20).
Not for the first time has he missed the original point I made about tailgating lorry drivers.
I accept his argument about car drivers who also tailgate. This is also worthy of condemnation, though it’s reasonable to expect a reasonable chance of survival if a car collides with the rear end of the vehicle.
This, however, dramatically decreases when being tailgated by 44 tonnes of ill-aimed truck.
And once again, no-one has managed to explain how a lorry, several of them as it happens, appeared to drive at 70mph when supposedly fitted with a limiter, which forces them, again supposedly, to drive at the designated speed limit, for all commercial vehicles over 7.5 tonnes, of 56mph.
On a lighter note, if I was travelling at 55mph and being tailgated by a rickshaw, it’s only to be hoped, assuming he’s pulling it, that he’s carrying no passengers.
KEN ROPER Kidlington
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