In relation to last week’s lorry accident on the Haylie Brae, Rob Waller has a point. We’ve said it on numerous occasions that its going to take one brake failure or an oversight and they will shoot through the traffic lights and into the houses at the bottom. No-one wants the stop of business going through or in the town but is it going to take the death of someone else before someone sits up and listens?

Kimberley Stevenson Contrary to reports, I couldn’t help but notice it wasn’t actually a coal lorry .. it was a quarry truck, with some aggregates company on the side.

Brian McShane I know what happened in Fairlie was tragic and a freak accident and I feel the lorries need to be policed better but I feel a lot of people are forgetting that the drivers are just doing a job to support a family as mang of you are and the drivers are under intense pressure to meet demands.

Alasdair Busby Drivers just doing a job is not really the point, nor is what kind if lorry it is! We all do jobs that are to pay bills etc etc however a life has been lost recently and there is continuing concern over the number of heavy vehicles using these roads.

Paul Hepburn This lorry was coming up the hill and no doubt slid on the corner, which I have done in my pick up. My issue with the lorries, any lorries, going along the A760 is that they travel far too fast and encroach on the other side at numerous points along the way due to their speed. At least they are limited to 56mph unlike other vehicles that pass my driveway at horrendous speeds Christine Muirhead It’s a shame about the woman that died in Fairlie but it was nothing but a freak accident which could of happened anywhere! You can’t just only stop the coal lorries - what about the petrol tankers, or the Morrisons lorries? Are you going to try and stop them as well? Don’t just target coal lorries because a lorry is a lorry no matter what it’s carrying!

Kimberley Whyte I do understand how modern fail safe brakes work. But I also know that the Haylie Brae has very bad drainage issues, the road frequently has rivers of water running down it in bad weather. I also know that in winter these turn to solid ice. What’s going to happen if brakes lock on in either of those conditions on that hill? Yes, I know that’s very unlikely, a freak situation. But then again so was the Fairlie crash. Why take the risk when there is a route with straighter, wider, easier-graded single carriageway sections and two of the newest sections of dual carriageway / motorway in the country (the 3 towns bypass and the M77)?

Rob Waller I’ve never seen that section of road ice over that bad as funnily enough the grit lorrys are well on top of it! I’ve drove this road morning and night for the last four years and never had any issues with lorry drivers! They are actually the most curteous drivers on the road! I don’t see you all shouting about the way some of the cars drive that road!

Is that all you can come up with? One accident? Right folks. let’s ban the lorrys because they’ve had a couple of accidents, never mind the amount of people that have been killed by idiots in cars on that road! No, let’s just ban the lorrys just incase they have an accident. Pathetic.

John Renton