YOUR correspondent Paul Hepworth claimed that by looking at your photo, he could tell that a 4x4 driver was being inconsiderate to a cyclist (Letters, November 3).

I say look again! Both the cyclist's feet are off the ground so he was probably moving off as the lights changed.

This view is reinforced by the fact that he is beyond the stop line and the vehicles have no plumes of exhaust rising, suggesting forward motion. If this is the case then the driver was merely moving through the box as we all have to.

I would add that all the four wheelers had lights on whereas none of the three two wheelers in the picture have.

William Eastwood,

Hawthorns, Riccall, York.

Updated: 09:56 Monday, November 08, 2004