SIR – While driving the company van, wanting to get from A to B quickly as safely as possible, getting stuck behind cars doing 30mph on a 50mph road occurs almost every day – The Dales are worst.

A nationwide survey reported that slow drivers are causing accidents as impatient motorists try to overtake. More than half of road users want cameras to catch and fine “Sunday drivers”, the poll revealed. And 27 per cent back the idea of a crawler lane on major roads and motorways. In 2009, 143 accidents were caused by dawdling people paying no attention to the vehicles behind them. Insurance site Confused.com also found that nearly half of drivers have tried to overtake on country roads or undertake on motorways as the car in front is hugging the middle line for miles. Why do drivers do this?

Peter Rodger of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, supports the call for “slow cameras”. He says: “Drivers who are unnecessarily excessively slow lead others to make rash moves.”

I managed to pass one car after following it for 12 miles through the Dales. I saw two old ladies sat in the front. Most of the time the car was doing 25mph. Another day, there was a line of traffic ahead of me with a tractor causing the hold up. There was a police car stuck in the line, which put its blue light on, passed everyone and stopped the tractor. Everybody got past. Is this a law, if you are causing a tailback you must pull in and let all get past?

The Dales has many dangerous bends, not built for lorries or coaches. They have to do their jobs, but, who was it that designed tractors to be so slow?

B Barraclough, New Works Road, Low Moor