WHILE Andrew Bird, principal, Bicycle Accident Law, Edinburgh, (Letters, June 11) is offering advice to cyclists, perhaps he would be good enough to give some helpful advice to pedestrians who, when they are where they should be, are unfortunate enough to be run into and injured by cyclists on pavements and footpaths etc.

These offenders are unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured and therefore, in most cases, untraceable; consequently, they do not have to stop and are at liberty to ride off into the sunset without any sense of decency or responsibility.

ROBERT TUCK, Pardy’s HIll, Corfe Mullen