The Oban Times

What do you think? Which are the area’s worst or most dangerous roads?

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David Macvicar,

28, from Oban, said: ‘It doesn’t really surprise me that the A85 is the fifth most dangerous road in Scotland because there are idiots on the road. You could make it safer if you made it a 50mph road with no overtaking.’

Ian Den Heijer,

41, Oban, said: ‘It might help if there was no overtaking and a speed limit between the cemetery to Dunbeg and beyond. I was overtaken recently at the corner just before the Halfway House then the car went into the filling station. People putting everyone in danger.’

Lorraine Campbell,

from Soroba, said: ‘ The road and the drivers are shocking. I only just passed my test in February but I have been up and down that road since my test and some people won’t even wait for me to pull into a passing place. People overtake at the most ridiculous places.’

Lorna Kirkpatric­k

from Oban said: ‘I can believe it. It’s not a bad road, but people drive too fast on it. What’s the point in overtaking? It’s better to be five minutes late in this world than to be five minutes early in the next. Something has to be done. I don’t know how they could police it.’

David Gilroy

from Easdale said: ‘Locals need to learn how to drive properly. If there’s a bicycle on the road you should not cross the white line. I have just done 4,200 miles through Europe and it’s embarrassi­ng when you come back and get to Loch Lomond as it’s potholes and floods.’

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