I WHOLEHEARTEDLY support Garland Copley's call for speed cameras to be installed on the stretch of the A19 between Shipton and Easingwold (August 17).

I use that road almost every weekday on the way to work. As someone who obeys the 60mph speed limit, I am always being recklessly overtaken by drivers who believe that it doesn't apply to them. Apart from the Tollerton crossroads, there are several bends, adverse cambers and blind summits which restrict visibility: but that doesn't stop a steady stream of morons haring past me and approaching these hazards at - I would guess - up to 80mph.

If any of these drivers had hit an oncoming vehicle shortly after passing me, the chances are high that I would have been caught up in his or her accident.

This makes me wonder if I am putting myself in more danger by observing the speed limit than if I just charged up that road at 80mph like everyone else.

When I slow down for the 30mph limit through Shipton the driver behind me often flashes his lights or makes a rude gesture before tailgating me right through the village and then overtaking on the approach to the bend just after it.

On one occasion I even had a police car do this to me!

Any driver trying to join the A19 from the Huby or Tollerton exit to that junction would be able to safely stay put if the approaching vehicle on the main road was travelling at 60mph.

What turns that junction into a death trap is the fact that most cars pass it at 80mph.

Rather than lower speed limits, as the anti-motorist lobby would have us do, the solution here is to effectively enforce the existing ones.

Leo Enticknap,

Ingram House,

Bootham,

York.

Updated: 12:10 Monday, August 22, 2005