IT is sad to see your earlier excellent campaign for safer driving being subsumed by the attack upon Colonel Stibbe's military OBE.

This campaign has opened old wounds and is now creating divisiveness between officers and other ranks in our armed forces.

Pamela Gabell (Wiltshire Times October 15) should really know better than to suggest that officers are treated more leniently in the courts than other ranks.

Philip Greenwood's attack (Wiltshire Times October 15) on the trial judge is totally unjust. Campaigners should realise that the MoD will have known all about this sad case and deemed it nothing whatever to do with this officer's promotion or award of a military OBE. In any case there was no evidence to justify a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

Perhaps now would be a good time to wing up this campaign, let our member of Parliament fulfil his bounden duty of representing the feelings of some of his constituents, and get back to the constructive campaign for better, slower, and safer driving, so that errors of judgement do not result in further tragedies on our roads. This would be a fitting tribute to those who died on the A350 at West Ashton.

Capt J WF BRIGGS

North Bradley