RE: Eden Blyth's letter in Thursday's Gazette & Herald, June 14.
What a pleasure to read this sweetly sarcastic letter in favour of the children's sculpture, which enlivens and enhances the stretch of road between Kirkbymoorside and Helmsley.
The sculpture is stationary and on the grass verge, how can it really be held responsible for causing or "nearly causing three accidents already"?
Car drivers are responsible for taking due care and attention when on the road - inanimate objects do not cause accidents. You might as well say that trees, flowers, clouds, houses, passing aeroplanes or even political posters cause accidents. We would agree only with the latter, as it has been placed there to deliberately attract drivers' attention.
Would the assorted sticks-in-the-mud and carping pessimists spare a thought for the feelings of the young creators of this splendid effort towards unification and positive thinking and please take a leaf from their book.
J ANDREWS, Pickering
J ANDREWS, Middleton
Updated: 10:42 Thursday, June 28, 2001
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