Madam,

I read the report on boy racers whose cars had been seized on the outskirts of Aberaeron (Cambrian News, 28 December) with great interest.

It is excellent news that police are now targeting these crazy individuals who represent a serious danger to themselves, other road users and pedestrians.

They sometimes come through the B4337 running through Talsarn, Cross Inn and Nebo, presumably their competitions taking the form of time trials.

However, boy racers are not the only speeders on this road, which forms part of a major route from Carmarthen to Aberystwyth. Ignoring or perhaps not seeing the 40mph signs, private and business vehicles come through at speeds of up to 80mph on the straight road from Pontsaeson through Cross Inn to Nebo, knowing that the chances of being stopped are virtually nil. At times, one feels like a spectator on the straight of a Grand Prix racetrack!

This stretch of road urgently needs modern, electronic, interactive solar-powered speed warning signs, actively telling speeding motorists that they are exceeding the speed limit, together with better enforcement by traffic police. Electronic warning signs are being effectively used in Carmarthenshire.

Unfortunately, both Ceredigion County Council and police are being severely squeezed in the way that they deploy limited resources. I have been told that the Welsh Government will not provide special resources in the absence of personal injuries or fatalities.

It is high time that road safety action is based on the assessment of danger rather than waiting for personal injuries: proactive rather than reactive.

Waiting for damage to property and loss of life is not the way that risk assessment and health and safety work in other spheres. The Grenfell Tower disaster illustrates this vividly. In the face of fire risks, steps should have been taken to contain and to cut down ways of fire spreading, and avoid fatalities.

The Welsh and UK governments should also consider setting up a separate body with the objectives of improving increasingly dreadful driving standards, including reducing speeding, the use of mobile phones and general unsafe driving.

Yours etc,

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