I have every sympathy with Evie Walton and hope that she has a good recovery I feel it necessary to comment about the lack of awareness on our country roads.
50 years ago there was a road safety campaign which was taken up by councils and schools everywhere in the UK which highlighted the need to always face oncoming traffic.
We do not see those posters on display anywhere now.
Instead, daily I pass people of all ages who have their back to the traffic, sometimes pushing prams, often with telephones to their ear who are totally unaware of what is going on around them.
Facing oncoming traffic is imperative.
Isn’t it time, particularly on our rural roads, to revive that campaign and encourage schools, clinics, council offices etc to display these posters and for primary schools to encourage be aware campaigns of this type?
A paragraph in your article to that effect may have provided further gravitas to the situation
John Hall
Richard Busby Way Lutton
