From Neil Howlett
Tam Dalyell contrasted the approaches to road safety in the UK – design the roads – and France – warn of dangerous ones (11 September, p 45). Here in Somerset we have an informal French approach: instead of life-size figures of victims at the scenes of accidents, they are marked by poignant bunches of battered flowers.
Whatever the national statistics, the British technique does not seem to work here. Most of these memorials are on roads designed and built in the last 10 years. They may have looked safe on the drawing board but have proved vulnerable to the failings of real human drivers.
Frome, Somerset UK
