Could Roy Hilliard (Opinion, February 15) be arrested for jaywalking if he walks in the road to avoid the wheeled pedestrians using the pavements?

In 1921, my father was a young man who lived in Bath Street, Brighton.

He would use his bike to get to work very early in the morning. One morning, the streets were empty except for a horse-drawn delivery van and a trolley bus.

He started off and continued at a goodly pace down New England Hill, where a policeman stopped him.

He was later taken to court, where he was charged with bicycling furiously and fined 25 shillings or 14 days in prison.

His mum was devastated but paid his fine as he was an apprentice printer.

Being away from work for a prison offence would have jeopardised that apprenticeship and his entire future.

-Mrs P Bolingbroke, Larkhill, Hove