Due care and attention

Sir, I am writing in response to a piece my husband and I read in last week’s edition of the Argyllshire Advertiser (Friday July 14) entitled ‘Sort out Strone Point’.

Surely it is up to drivers to drive with the due care and attention that this part of the road calls for and needs, instead of careering into a blind bend at top speeds. That corner was there a long time before the traffic that now use it, and no doubt started out as a well-worn path that has progressed into the road it is today, so we all know it is there and should be aware of it.

Personally, I think the trees should have been left on the bank and money on alterations to the road could be well spent elsewhere. If people slowed down and stuck to their own side of the road, then there wouldn’t be a problem. Chances are, when the alterations are made, the traffic will speed up even more, and the fatalities will continue.

It needs people to read the road, slow down so they can see the signs and drive accordingly, and it is up to local drivers to exercise a little patience and courtesy towards drivers who are strangers to these roads and drive at a safe speed and distance, instead of using the roads as a race track. Accidents happen on straighter stretches of road than Strone Point so surely that tells us it’s the driving that’s at fault and not the roads.

If money has to be spent improving the road, how about putting a set of traffic lights at each side of the bend and making the road through single file, as they have in Minard village? This will serve to slow off the traffic as well. John and Julie, Sutton, Lochgair.