IN response to Julie Pringle, Letters Monday March 16, the Road Share campaign, which Mark Beaumont supports, is not calling for blanket protection of road users who fail to adhere to the rules but rather a system whereby the more vulnerable party involved in a collision is afforded the appropriate level of care and respect.

If a cyclist breaks the law, he or she should be penalised. We have no problem with that and it is for the authorities to enforce this. What we are calling for is a change to Scottish civil law which deals with liability and compensation - not criminal law. This would create a hierarchy effect so if a motorist collides with a cyclist the motorist would be presumed responsible for any injury, loss or damage unless it can be proved otherwise. Equally, if a cyclist collides with a pedestrian, under presumed liability, the cyclist, would be liable for any injury caused.

The call for presumed liability is about shifting the burden of proof for an accident from the vulnerable to the more powerful, which in most cases places an onus on a motorist's insurance company to make a fair and immediate decision about compensation.

Brenda Mitchell

Founder, Road Share and Cycle Law Scotland

NOT content with turning the police service in Scotland into a shambles with the national Police Scotland the SNP now want to wreck British Transport Police. Is there no end to their stupidity and incompetence

LJT

Glasgow

REGARDING MSPs reject petition calling for Flower of Scotland to be the official national anthem, the Government should set up a competition for all to submit suitable alternatives to the present anthem. The last verse of the anthem is a spike in the heart of every Scot and why the Scottish Government persists with it I'll never know.

Johnny Mack, Scotland Street, posted online

ONE the fracking issue, it has been banned in a number of countries, and limited to specific areas in other countries. In the UK, if the fracking company has a license they can frack under your house, that's the reality.

And of course the best fracking areas are the north of England and Scotland, anything that doesn't affect middle and south England is more important than other areas of the UK apparently.

Iain MacDonald, Irvine, posted online