IN THE last week I have encountered several dangerous or inconsiderate drivers. Why are people putting others lives as well as their own at risk so much?

There was the big crash on the by-pass, perhaps caused by reasons other than bad driving. On Sunday a friend and I were driving back from Dorchester on the country road that goes past the Winterbourne Hospital to Came, when a white Mercedes came hurtling round a bend, partly over the white line, doing at least 70 mph. The wing mirror hit our wing mirror with a huge bang, destroying it, as the car went by, closely followed by another apparently racing it. We were lucky, as if the Merc had hit us sideways, we’d have been in the hedge.

Retribution should come to him when he finds the cost of a new wing mirror on a Mercedes.

In Westhill Road there are mains water works, which means that from the works side people walking often have to take to the road. but I was verbally abused by a lady in her car who had to slow down to avoid me and the dogs as we walked round a barrier, and others drive past with the same lack of consideration for pedestrians. It was beautifully quiet when the traffic lights covered our bit of road. And, in spite of all the warnings about driving and using the phone, a man in a van from an aerial company was dodging round the parked cars in the narrow bit of the road with his phone to his ear.

Yesterday, on exiting Jubilee Close, I was overtaken by a learner driver on a scooter; at the roundabout he went the wrong way round and shot off through the lights to the main road. I would rather not meet him when he passes his test and gets a motorbike.

A Bardswell

Weymouth