I, like the safety campaigners quoted in The Argus (April 17), am dismayed by the fatality on the A27 at Firle.

This will not be the last. This road has not basically altered from the days of little Baby Austins and Bull Nose Morriss's of the Thirties.

Meanwhile, since the end of the Second World War, the average width of vehicles has increased by twelve inches (300mm).

With traffic on this road very often having a closing speed well in excess of 100mph, any slight error in judgement will most possibly result in fatalities or very serious injuries.

The blame for this situation must be laid at the feet of politicians, councillors and vociferous protest groups.

Many of these policymakers do not even know where the A27 is, let alone drive on it. The whole of the road should be dual carriageway throughout East and West Sussex.

It is the major artery for cross-country coastal traffic, with many single-carriageway, pollution-creating sections which cost many thousands of pounds in delays.

Go to the north of the country or on the Continent and you travel safely on dual carriageways which do not carry the amount of traffic the A27 does.

Sussex only has one reasonably decent major road the A23. On all other routes you are faced with single carriageways which are a certain path for serious accidents.

No amount of safety measures proposed by councils, in the form of further signs, traffic islands and coating the road with red asphalt, will save the situation. Also, proposing a single carriageway over the Beddingham railway crossing should be considered totally irresponsible.

We, as motorists, have kept our side of the bargain in paying our road fund licence, which is now one of many motoring taxes we pay.

Surely it is about time our politicians gave us the protection all road users deserve.

-I Levett, disgruntled Sussex traveller, Carpenters, Billingshurst