I READ your story A2 Crashes Must End (News Shopper, February 22), noting the sentiment something must be done.

Nothing more need be done than to educate the wayward drivers currently on the road and make the test more relevant to current driving conditions, with motorway training included.

As tragic as the incidents on the A2 are, surely all would have been caused by poor driving.

It is no good talking about the road itself being dangerous or too congested, it is the standard of driving which is the problem. The A2 near Gravesend is of motorway standard and is better and far safer piece of road than most of the M2.

I use this stretch of road daily and it is becoming more unusual to see adequate signalling at all from drivers before they change lanes.

And cars driven too fast in the middle and outer lanes nearing the M25 turn off then try to cut across traffic at the last minute to exit.

A potentially dangerous tendency shown by some drivers these days is to begin to overtake and then hover alongside your car at the same speed without completing the manoeuvre.

The police could do more and are virtually absent from our roads except when an accident occurs.

I don't think anything less than a government campaign will solve the problem.

Peter Stock, Kitchener Avenue, Gravesend