Sir – The worst road junction in Europe I have found is turning left in Headington at the traffic lights into Windmill Road.

In a 16-metre articulated lorry, you need to be right against the refuge in the middle of the road, or drive past the mouth of the junction and more or less jackknife into the street. Cars, cyclists will inevitably decide to ignore the lorry driver’s left hand indicator and try to push past.

I’ve driven in most west European countries and find the English drivers the worst.

Signposting could be improved nationally to help lorry drivers. Local signs for industrial estates could be put further away from road junctions (after all, we are least likely to know where we are going, with the worst maneuvering, the greatest blind spots and double the braking distance of a car).

The Highway Code gives braking distances for cars, but not for lorries or buses. I have about one heart attack a day as I use the hard shoulder on the motorway, because my braking spaces are severely reduced by cars pulling in to join the queue I’ve sat in for the past mile.

Chris Minchin, Combe