JANET West (Letters, August 7) complained that she had been fined for speeding.

By her own admission, she was driving significantly faster than the safe limit while eight months pregnant.

I don't quite understand her problem with this. She was driving at a speed that was deemed unsafe for the road she was on while carrying her unborn son.

She's a law-abiding person, yet she thinks she's above the law.

A bit of a double standard there, don't you think?

Ms West was trapped by a hand-held speed camera.

These devices are ideal for catching those irresponsible 'boy racers' she complains about.

That's why they are used, to trap those drivers who would slow down at a fixed yellow camera before speeding up as soon as they're away from the white lines on the road.

The arrogance of drivers who break the law, are caught and then complain about it is astounding.

All their arguments about the police having better things to do than prosecute dangerous drivers eventually boil down to: "You can't fine me, because I'm allowed to speed."

Most people do break the speed limit, whether accidentally or just to shave a few minutes off a journey.

But when these 'law abiding' citizens are caught, they should at least have the guts and the decency to admit they were in the wrong.

RICHARD COWEN, Dandy Row, Darwen.