REGARDING your leading article in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph (November 3) concerning the number of accidents on the Grane Road.

Over the past three years, I have used this road daily and have noted the increase in the number of vehicles, following the opening of the M65 extension.

While agreeing that the proposed speed reduction may help to prevent accidents, I feel the major cause of many accidents is the frustration drivers feel, finding themselves impeded by heavy, slow-moving lorries.

Too often, their impatience results in a sudden acceleration when they see the slightest chance of overtaking.

A reduction in the speed limit will do nothing to diminish this rashness; only a reduction in the number of heavy vehicles can have any effect on this problem.

I can envisage a weight restriction as the only real solution.

CATHERINE CHEW, Pleasington Close, Blackburn.

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