Many people in Market Lavington are wondering, as another life is lost in the Spin Hill/Ledge Hill area, and as the winter evenings start to draw in, what has happened to the new speed limits that Wiltshire County Council first agreed to last December, almost a year ago.

After reading the comments made in last week's Gazette following the latest tragic road fatality, I rang Mr Peter Harris, casualties reduction manager at Wiltshire County Council, to ask when the work was going to happen. I was appalled to learn that it will be the end of November at least before Wiltshire County Council advertises the speed limit.

Wiltshire County Council's regulatory committee made its final comments on this matter on September 8. The advertisements could have gone in the following week, and by now the speed limits could be in force.

The lack of urgency with which this matter is being treated is disgraceful. It is beyond belief that, once again, residents of Spin Hill face a winter in which cars are allowed to race up and down this residential road at 60 miles per hour, past children cycling and walking to school, and elderly residents without cars for whom it is the only pedestrian access to the village.

I am appealing to Wiltshire County Council to give this matter the priority that its elected members asked for in 2003. Don't wait for another tragedy to happen make this road and others like it safe now.

S Charity

Market Lavington