I CANNOT be the first person to think that with present electronic aids, both local authorities and Dorset Police have not considered the uncontrolled mayhem on our roads in time of an accident.

In the same way that flashing message boards tell you that the bridge is closed, the ferry is out, why are there not message boards on major roundabout hubs advising of an accident?

Time and time again an accident on the Old Wareham Road has a policeman stopping traffic at the Newtown exit from the Dorset Way when traffic has piled into that stretch from Mannings Heath where the alternative road across Canford Heath would take considerable pressure off an area already saturated in the opposite direction.

Equally when is the Tatnam Crossroads going to get its own phased alternative rotational stream traffic lights at peak times of rush hour and school traffic, when at other times there is no traffic whatsoever.

The fact that the police, fire and ambulance use Tatnam Road as a quick way to the Holes Bay Road to avoid other traffic lights is adding pressure onto what has become a distributor road between two schools, a football stadium, and an industrial estate.

Since the traffic calming in Sterte Road, the traffic has doubled in Tatnam Road.

It was such a nice quiet area when I came here in 1952, but how it has deteriorated.

BRIAN J GALPIN, Tatnam Road, Poole