SIR - What an insult to our intelligence, Phillip Gwynne, head of public affairs at the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership, to say speed cameras are not just to generate revenue (T&A, September 23).

You only have to look where they are positioned to see that pedestrians do not come into it at all. Take a walk through the village of Denholme from the Five Flags to the 4x4 garage and note the speed of large quarry lorries, motor cycles and some cars.

Note the narrow paths that will not accommodate wheelchairs and how, when a large vehicle passes, you are almost sucked into the road by the back draught.

Now look for a speed camera or any slowing measures, there are none.

On the other side of the village they come flying off the moor road through the absurd new traffic lights (for horses and bikes), again no warning to reduce speed.

Ask any person living in Denholme how they go on pulling out from home into the flow of traffic, check your convenient statistics for the number of accidents on this stretch of road, and then come to the meetings held by the villagers of this village about speed cameras.

David Holland, Lower Whiteshaw Mews, Keighley Road, Denholme