Sir – The excellent letter from Mark McArthur-Christie (Letters, August 5) makes more sense than anything else, which you acknowledge in you leader.
What has puzzled me for some while is why is the accident record of the driver not taken into consideration before they are banned.
I would bet that a large number of drivers caught for speeding have never had an accident. It would be easy enough to check with their insurance company.
It may also help all those who are so convinced that speed is the culprit to realise that the people being penalised are not bad drivers. It is not speed that kills, it is bad driving and there are plenty of examples of that but apparently no way of stopping it yet.
Derrick Stevens, Boars Hill
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