Advertiser reader’s letter: Cameras to add to patient stress

While travelling to an appointment at King’s Mill Hospital, I noticed average speed cameras have been put up along the A617.

I’m not entirely sure what the point of them is, given the fact that during my very regular journeys along there I rarely break the speed limit thanks to the lorries trundling along there.

On a serious note. Have the people who took this ridiculous decision given any thought to those of us who, God forbid, may find ourselves travelling from Newark to King’s Mill in a medical emergency or to get to a desperately ill relative?

I suspect they haven’t.

Alternatively, perhaps this is yet another example of a Nottinghamshire County Council cash cow.

It is bad enough that we are forced to make that journey because of the downgrading of our own town’s hospital, without facing fines to do so.

While I appreciate road safety is a serious issue, I feel these cameras are in completely the wrong place. Move them to somewhere where they are truly needed, and won’t cause added distress to residents trying to get to a hospital. — R. MILLER, via email.