Squeals on wheels

sir – On holiday in Vietnam I saw scooters carrying incredible loads (Letters, August 7). Families of five or six were a common sight.

Some scooters had boxes on wheels attached to the front so that they could carry furniture; one was carrying a full-sized fridge-freezer. However the prize went to a man carrying six full-grown live pigs – two lashed horizontally each side, behind the rider’s legs, and two horizontally across the back.

In more than two weeks of travelling we never saw a single road accident. Chris Gordon

Boston, Lincolnshire