REGARDING your article 'Prince's Award for Road Safety Team' (LET, June 4), Adrian Walsh, Director of the Government campaign group, Roadsafe, on presenting the award, said the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety had set a national standard to which others should aspire.

Really?

The Partnership, is part of a government/council scheme which has overseen a situation on our roads whereby, nationally, nearly 10 people are killed and 107 people are seriously injured every day.

It allows learner drivers to pass their test and then, if they wish, immediately go and drive on the motorway.

This partnership is part of a scheme which requires drivers to be able to read a number plate at 67 feet. Having passed this out-of-date test, they are then entitled to a driving licence and able, quite lawfully, to drive on a motorway 70 mph.

The Partnership is erecting more than 300 speed cameras in this county alone.

This 'Scammera' scheme does not catch the real killers and villains such as 'boy racers,' reckless, careless, dangerous, indifferent drivers, those with bad eyesight, drivers under the influence of drink and/or drugs, uninsured drivers' untaxed vehicles and those without MoT certificates -- to name but a few.

They just catch mainly honest and law-abiding citizens who, for the most part, are driving at appropriate speeds.

The Partnership requires drivers to stare at their speedometers to make sure they are not driving at just one or two mph above the speed limit.

It should, instead, be encouraging them to look out of their windscreen and in their mirror and formulate a driving plan to help keep themselves away from the dangers on the roads.

It has developed a pioneering 'Speed Awareness Course' where drivers receive a lecture partly based upon the out-of-date stopping and braking distances found in the Highway Code.

What they won't tell you is that these stopping and braking distances were compiled so long ago that they now have no relationship to the much improved ones of modern vehicles.

The Partnership has developed a thought process drawn from a vast array of expertise that in order to stop drivers colliding with hazards, they narrow the roads and build thousands more hazards!

Forget the spin, this Partnership is just a quango and a job for the boys and girls.

It is no more than a scam to get money from you.

ADRIAN SHURMER. (Former 'Class One,' Lancashire Constabulary driving instructor), Lyndon Avenue, Great Harwood.