This is a reader's letter sent in to the Oxford Mail which has been published in our print edition.

I WAS surprised to read a letter in the Oxford Mail blaming pedestrians for not looking out for cars.

The same day, you reported that a takeaway on Iffley Road reopened three months after a driver smashed into its front window.

Earlier in the week, you reported that a driver in Abingdon crashed into a supermarket.

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Adding these incidents to the daily collisions between drivers on the A34, it is hard to see how pedestrians are at fault.

Every school and every family warns children of the danger from cars. But children are children.

Oxford Mail: A car crashed into a shop in Iffley Road in January A car crashed into a shop in Iffley Road in January (Image: Public)As adults, we have the greater responsibility for road safety.

And as drivers operating dangerous machinery in a public space, we have the most responsibility.

That’s not just common sense - it’s Rule H1 of the Highway Code.

Owen McKnight
Oxford