IN response to my letter, called Road Victims Must Never Be Forgotten (February 20), I received an anonymnous letter in the post.

It included a cutting of another letter, called Roadside Memorials Survey Was a Sham, written by an anonymous author called Irate Taxpayer. I assume it was the same person.

They had taken the trouble to inform me that the council proposes to provide a permanent memorial in Queens Park, commenting: “I don’t know what that will achieve other than to waste money. The accidents did not take place there — nor are the deceased remains there.”

In Radcliffe, we have a memorial to the fallen, The Cenotaph. The deaths did not take place there nor are the deceased people’s remains there.

The point of such memorials is that the victims of war will never be forgotten. For some people, these memorials and services are a reminder that war is not the answer — we must settle things peacefully.

Similarly, some people need to be constantly reminded that excessive speeding, drink-driving and ignoring the mobile phone ban cause many deaths and are a shameful waste of life.

The anonymous author said council tax should be spent “on repairing the roads, rather than wasting it on the permanent memorial and removing dead flowers and paraphernalia from the roadside”.

However, how much of my council tax is “wasted” in the pursuit, punishment and education of rogue drivers and cleaning up their mess? How much more is car insurance because of death and injuries?

There will only be more memorials and higher car insurance if some drivers continue to show no respect Allan Ramsay Road Peace