This Sunday there was a cycle event around Worton and Potterne. It was for a good cause but its participants were amateur and, as I would be, unfit and often wobbly.

There was no warning of this for drivers and no signs on the road. After I had come round a corner at 40mph on Court Hill, only to narrowly miss a child wobbling about in the middle of the road, escorted by parents and apparently grandparents nearly blocking the entire road, I was in a state of shock and angry.

I have no wish to knock off a cyclist, and usually Sunday cyclists obey the Highway Code and ride in single file, but this was dangerous.

When I got to the junction of Court Hill and Potterne High Street I pointed out to the marshal at the side of the road that drivers really ought to be warned by signs being put up like the professionals and semi-professionals do; only to be told that they’d been running this event over the past four years, and people should expect it!

Can I ask the British Heart Foundation not to just think of signs as being important to tell their cyclists where to go, but also to tell drivers on a fairly busy local road what to expect. I wouldn’t mind driving slowly if I knew there was a reason for it.

A Lesley Hawes (Mrs), Mill Head, Worton.