WHILE driving down the A64 towards Scarborough a few days ago, I became aware of dozens of little yellow signs in the grass verge marked: “Danger, overhead wires”.

I noticed there were at least four signs near every single wire across the road from telephone cables to electricity national grid lines. Why? Surely no one with a grain of common sense believes these signs will make any contribution to health and safety. Training drivers of unusually high vehicles, such as cranes or cherry pickers, to avoid overhead wires makes excellent sense, but if they can’t see a wire suspended in the air across the road it is unlikely that they will see the silly, and ugly, little signs in the grass.

Colin Richardson, Hobgate, York.