Speeding traffic in Bridge Street, Pershore, is a serious problem

The average traffic speed of 22mph quoted in your article is exactly what it says – average. It includes all the heavy traffic that creeps along very slowly during busy peak periods when jams and blockages are common.

When traffic is moving freely, about 90 per cent of drivers are speeding.

Many of them pass through at excessive speeds, not just a few mph over the limit.

Law-abiding drivers are tail-gated, hooted at and gesticulated at. Getting a vehicle in or out of a Bridge Street property or trying to enter a kerbside parking space is rendered difficult and sometimes dangerous by other drivers' speeds, aggression and rudeness.

This is not a new problem. A speeding driver crashed his car into my bay window back in the 1980s, causing serious damage.

Luckily, no pedestrians were in the way. No action was taken.

There is a speed limit. It is not enforced.

Traffic calming measures will make no difference to those drivers who do not obey the law. It will just make life more difficult for those who do.

Helen Beeching

Pershore