Token gesture
Given the increasing prevalence of tailgating and the rarity of any driver being brought to book for it, it was interesting to read your report (June 12) about motorists prosecuted for the practice.
This anti-social and dangerous behaviour is surely one manifestation of the crude official approach to road safety, which encourages drivers to slow down for speed bumps and cameras, but as an unintended corollary promotes open season elsewhere.
Equally crude is the official response. As has surely been demonstrated in recent years in relation to many other areas of human misconduct, a few planned warning signs and a bit of token enforcement are surely better characterised as gesture politics/policing rather than a serious attempt to tackle the problem.
STUART WINTON
Hilltown
Dundee
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