IN response to Margaret Squire’s letter in the "Crediton Courier" (October 6) asking farmers and contractors to consider local people and roads during the maize harvest.

One night, recently, when I was coming back in the dark on the Yeoford Road, between Moorlake and Gunstone Cross, I met a huge green tractor towing a machine that was about nine feet wide on a narrow country lane.

I and two other cars had to reverse about 100 yards to let the tractor and its load pass.

Machines that size should be left in the field after dark and not be driving around the country lanes. It’s ok in daylight, but not after dark.

George Davey

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