SIR - Careful motorists be warned -the dreaded loose chippings are back in our area!

You will see them piled in lay-bys ready to be spread on perfectly good roads and then thrown at your windscreen and bodywork by thoughtless motorists speeding towards you.

There are plenty of signs saying 20mph max but these are largely ignored.

On a sunny afternoon trip back to Pershore from Alcester, we decided to go the scenic route, through Abbots Morton, Radford and Flyford Flavel, Naunton Beauchamp, etc. Big mistake!

Miles of these lovely narrow lanes are now covered with loose, razor-sharp, bright, new chippings - each one sharpened to perfection to inflict the maximum damage on car paintwork and glass.

What gets me, are the people - mostly in huge 4x4s - who roar along as though they own the road and ignoring the 20mph limit. Perhaps they could slow down a bit? Even to 35mph, would help!

Broken windscreens cost a fortune in both money and inconvenience, and it's the same with paint chips in bodywork.

I have to pay for my own car repairs - these people obviously do not.

These grey road chippings were around in 1940, inflicting the same damage then - they should now be banned!

Stanley D Parr, Pershore.