ANSWERING the call in the letter from a biker from Lime St, Morecambe. I cannot agree with what the biker did to end the incident, because two wrongs do not make a right, and he must take his punishment.

But on the other hand, what gives anyone the right to try to tell a total stranger how fast they should go? Not only that, by swerving around like an idiot, the message is hardly getting across. In my mind such behaviour is extremely dangerous, because not only is there a direct risk of collision if the biker is caught by surprise, but the amount of attention one has to give to an unpredictable idiot means that you could miss something else, like another car or pedestrian about to do something stupid. I believe that the driver should get 3 points for dangerous driving.

If he doesn't, then it makes a mockery of our legal system, and in that case perhaps the biker was right in doing what he did, because you can get 3 points for doing 70 in a 60 limit on a empty open road, which is far less dangerous than this incident (provided you ride safely). Because of the level of danger involved, I can understand why the biker did what he did, but as I said, can't agree with it. Much better to sneak past when the car is stopped at the next junction and set off from the front. If we got off and thumped every idiot that tried to kill us, there would be a lot of injured drivers out there!

Philip Johnson, Bolton le Sands.

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