FED-UP drivers say "nutter" motorists are to blame for hundreds of crashes on the A2.

News Shopper recently reported how a string of serious accidents had sparked more calls for transport chiefs to take action and save lives.

Since April last year there have been 235 accidents, ranging from minor to serious and including two fatalities, on the Gravesend stretch of the dual carriageway.

Safety campaigners want traffic-calming measures put in but some motorists say it is other drivers who are to blame.

They say it is the "lunacy" and "idiocy" of other drivers who are impatient and speeding which causes crashes.

North Kent co-ordinator of RoadPeace Ted Prangnell recently spoke out in News Shopper, saying the Highways Agency should make the road safer.

But he says drivers must also acknowledge the role they play in preventing accidents.

Mr Prangnell thinks drivers should re-take their driving test every five years.

He says some crashes could be avoided if drivers stopped their bad habits.

Jo Green contacted News Shopper by email to says she has been shocked by drivers' behaviour since moving to Gravesend from the north.

She said: "I think drivers down here are nutters. I've never seen so many dangerous manoeuvres."

An angry commuter, who did not want to be named, says drivers need to use their common sense rather than call for traffic-calming measures.

She said: "I drive along it on a daily basis to work in London and I see acts of sheer lunacy and idiocy on every journey.

"You should not require traffic-calming measures in place of decent common sense to tell you to slow down."

She added: "A government investigation is not required to tell you the cause of accidents is usually a lack of observation."

"I would rather take just 10 minutes longer to get there by driving carefully.

"Better that than someone telling my family I have become another A2 statistic."