“Can the Herald provide an area of it's web site for ranting about bad driving and accidents please?

I've just seen a motorcyclist heading towards Elburton undertake a van by using the cycle lane approaching Zebra crossing by the Mini Garage and Fairway Furniture.

It's dark and raining and you want to complicate matters by passing up the nearside of a van as it approaches a Zebra crossing on a left hand bend??

So their visibility of anyone using the crossing wouldn't have been hampered by a van on their RHS side then?”

“Wow a Herald article about a crash and not a single use of the word "horror". Something is amiss.”

“It is usually numpty drivers.

Last Weds evening a Range Rover came close up behind me as I was passing the inside lane at about 75 mph. It was dark, wet, but light traffic.

I passed the slower cars and pulled in and the vehicle then shot off up to the back of the ones in front of me, despite them being in a train behind a van passing a lorry. After managing to bully them out of the way, it then cut off to Ivybridge, having gained about 200 yards on me between Deep Lane and Ivybridge.

The Range Rover should be easy to spot, it was reg no WA04NWM, and was bright blue, red, and yellow, with the word "POLICE" on the back in big letters.”

“A38 is the "idiot highway" I've never seen so many numptys behind the wheel. Let's see if the "safety" camera van is out and about to *catch*, sorry prevent more accidents.”

“I really think the Highways department should take a look at this filling station.Every day there are near misses where traffic is pulling out of the station into the path of fast moving A38 traffic on a junction
leadind to South Brent.The safest option would be to send filling station traffic down the South Brent road take a left back A38 to junction over A38 and rejoin A38 from a safer juntion. As far as these people having stupid accidents in the filling station maybe it would be a good idea to slow them down as they come in as i have seen motorists comming in at about 50 miles an hour.”

“This garage obviously jumped out at this poor, defenceless driver in a completely unwarranted and malicious attack. It should have an ASBO imposed on it and if it fails to comply with the restrictions, it should be sent to prison.”

“Nev, Totnes: Do you reckon you can back up that claim with some statistics.

That garage is nasty, it quite evidently keeps moving into the middle of th road at night and then scurrying back when the accident has happened.

Get a grip, the garage is nothing to do with the accident it is the DRIVERS! Good grief. Why can't people accept that nearly all accidents on the roads are caused by driver error.

We get peple going the wrong way down the a38, no one blames the driver, nope, it is because the slip roads are confusing?????? How, one goes on one goes off. If people can't get basics like this right then to be frank the should never be allowed behind the whell of what in reality is a lethal weapon.”

“Why not redesign the exit slip road of the garage as this is a accident black spot or should i say how may more times must this happen before something get done! Why not put the exit form the garage going into south brent and get traffic to rejoin the A38 at the marley head slip road? Or the close the petrol station completely it would save a lot of problems!”

“Why don't the police just permanently close the A38? Job done!”

“Steve B, I hope you and your girlfriend make a speedy recovery from your accident. I was referring to the Fiesta ending up on the garage forecourt.

I guess the Herald could have made it two separate stories rather one?

There are some myopic drivers out there.

Sending your driving licence photocard back with £20 every 10 years doesn't check fitness to drive or eyesight does it?

Mishaps and disaster have been the topic for humour and light handed remarks for several decades now.”