WHEN I drove past the new Curry's building in London Road, High Wycombe, just past the Hatters Lane junction, a few weeks ago, I said to my companion: "I am surprised that Curry's store owners obtained planning permission to open a large store with such a dangerous road layout."

Regular drivers will be aware already how dangerous London Road is with its bus lanes and car speed on London Road from Loudwater into High Wycombe has almost doubled, since its previous layout.

It is impossible to turn right anywhere along the road by going into the centre of the road, because of two lines of cars, at very fast speeds coming towards you.

Therefore you are forced to hold the traffic up in the left-hand lane behind you as you wait to turn. I know as someone who has used this road for 40 years, that there is a requirement to be careful, but I often wonder what it must be like for strangers driving through High Wycombe to really understand the road markings along this road.

When I saw there was no road markings on the road by the new Curry's store to allow visiting motorists to the store to turn right, which meant that there will be a requirement to stay in the left-hand lane, at this very busy junction, I remarked to my companion: "If any driver does not stay in the left-hand lane, but turns into the middle of the road, then there will be a bad accident."

Sure enough, on the way to Gatwick Airport to collect our son, last Saturday evening, we drove down Hatters Lane, at what would normally be a quiet part of the evening, only to be confronted with a queue of traffic part way up Hatters Lane.

On turning the corner just opposite Curry's we could see the reason a car was embedded in another car and the police were directing traffic.

I wonder how many more of these there will be, before someone realises that to allow this store to have been there in the first place is absolute folly.

Jim Tanner

Terryfield Road

High Wycombe