I feel a few correspondents are being a little hard on Oxford Pedestrians’ Association’s Sushila Dhall for her comments about motorists after the recent hit-and-run incident involving a cyclist and a cancer survivor.

Is this not what people have been saying about cyclists every time there is a story published (here or elsewhere)?

Even when the story is relatively positive.

Look. What the cyclist did was wrong, immoral even. However, Sushila Dhall is not the enemy, she is working towards clearing the air (as well as highlighting safety issues). How many of us can say we’ve done the same?

Robert Sephton (Tuesday’s ViewPoints) does raise a salient point – there is little in the way on statistics over red-light-jumping (by all road users). The one study I know of is from London.

That found just 16 per cent of cyclists jumped the lights.

Some of us have done some basic counting but a sensible and scientific approach is needed – more data clearly needs to be collected.

However, people must not get up in arms when, or if, the data then shows (as the London study did) something contrary to their opinion or experience. We must look at the larger picture.

DJ COOK, Kathleen Road, Southampton,