I am dismayed by the audacity of S.L. from Lewes. Road deaths of motorcyclists do not just boil down to "maniacs".

I have had three motorcycle accidents in two years, all requiring hospital treatment.

In each "accident" (as they are wrongly named), I was stationary and wearing high-visibility clothing and motorcycle armour.

On all three occasions, I was driven into by car users and all three drivers used the immortal line "Sorry, mate, I didn't see you" - the reply to which should be "because you didn't look".

There are riders who break the speed limit but there are car drivers doing the same.

A speed camera doesn't discriminate but, when it all goes wrong and a collision occurs, who comes off worst?

Is it not time the roads around Brighton and Hove were looked at in terms of their safety, design and disrepair and those who use four wheels took that extra glance in their blind-spot or that extra second to look around to prevent killing those of us riding on two?

-K.P., Brighton (pekkers@hotmail.com)