MADAM,

I read recently in your paper that the Welsh office has decided to temporarily shut off the lay-bys on the A466 between High Beech Roundabout and the Severn Bridge. We know that will be permanent.

This has been brought about in a campaign led by a family who tragically lost their husband and father. They did not see all the dangers the day they parked their car there and if it had not been for the accident we would not be hearing from them now.

Nobody would deny the grief they are going through or would want to be in their place, but sometimes in cases like this people want to find someone to blame. Is it right that people should lose the convenience of the lay-bys to satisfy someone else’s loss?

I’m more surprised David Davies is backing a campaign for people who don’t live in Chepstow, against the people who live in Chepstow.

Out of four people killed on that road, three of them were people walking in the road; you can’t blame the lay-bys for that.

Roger Vale

(Chepstow)