Phone menace on our roads

HAVING had correspondence with the office of the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire regarding the increasing problem of motorists using hand-held mobile phones while driving, I am now utterly convinced that the Crown Prosecution Service has little or no interest in road safety.

Any mass return to summonses and court prosecutions would, I understand, be rigorously contested by defence lawyers and the criminal justice system as a whole.

What is wrong with all these people? Do they not care if people are killed or injured on our roads because of selfish motorists who insist on breaking the law?

Bureaucracy gone mad

From: John Richmond, Harrogate Road, Ripon.

I, LIKE many of your readers, am seething at the level of idiotic bureaucracy that was allowed to unravel over the display of a palm cross in a van driver’s vehicle.

Your columnist, Bill Carmichael, puts it well when he describes the action as “stinking hypocrisy” (Yorkshire Post, April 22).

His column appeared on the same page as the Easter message from Dr Sentamu, Archbishop of York.

I have written direct to the Archbishop on this dire situation, posing some serious questions. As I put to Dr Sentamu, where are our Christian leaders?

Healthy option

From: Sam Flint, Horsforth, Leeds.

I AGREE with Tom Richmond (Yorkshire Post, April 27) that the concept of elected health commissioners would provide a far greater incentive to improve NHS rather than financial powers being passed – unchecked – to unaccountable GP surgeries.