IT IS so sad to see the pictures of injured and dead animals in the New Forest, victims of poor, bad driving.

How can anyone kill or injure an animal, leaving it to die, and then drive off; what dreadful suffering.

There may be several options to deal with drivers who are traced, and the police are quite good at tracing debris at the scene to the vehicle make. But speed cameras are not the answer (your recent published letter).

In my opinion, speed cameras are in fact detrimental to the safety of motoring today. Far too many of drivers are consistently monitoring the speedometer, and not the road ahead. All that could and would happen by placing speed cameras is that the New Forest would look just as bad as the dead animals lying in the road. Drivers would still knock down animals and probably pay a speeding fine.

Speed cameras don’t work, if they did they would not generate the vast amounts of revenue they do. Perhaps if drivers are traced after leaving an accident scene, a five-year driving ban plus confiscation of the vehicle may do some good to make drivers safer.

T Grant

Waterside Railway