Good roads not a cure for blatant bad driving

Sir, – I refer to your article titled A9 delays have been too long (Saturday Journal, November 26).

While I totally echo the feelings of sympathy expressed by Morag Lindsay in relation to the recent fatal accident on the A9 between Luncarty and Bankfoot, I suggest that she is being disingenuous in citing this particular case in support of expediting the dualling of the A9, however good a cause that is.

She refers, in relation to this accident, to the “notorious stretch of the A9 between Perth and Inverness” without making it clear that the site of the accident was on a newly completed stretch of dualling, as safe as any road could be and the very thing we have all been agitating for.

This tragic accident is still under investigation but it appears to show that no road is totally safe, a fact about which we should be honest.

Arthur Davis.

Atholl Park, Dunkeld.

LEGEND: Doddie Weir died from motor neurone disease at 52.