THE recent spate of lorries striking bridges in and around Romsey cannot be allowed to continue.

Surely in this technological age some electronics company (like Garmin here in Romsey) could produce a small, cheap electronic device, which would be required by law to be fitted inside the cab of every vehicle over Ford Transit size.

Mounted on every bridge would be a simple cheap passive device (therefore requiring no power or maintenance) which would be interrogated by an approaching lorry and relay the height information.

If the lorry won't fit under the bridge a loud klaxon would sound inside the cab, 100 yards before it reached the bridge.

I am aware that articulated lorries can change trailers and thus one day fit under a bridge and the next strike it.

That could be easily overcome with a device on the trailer passing its height to the unit in the cab.

Thereafter any driver striking a bridge could be thrown in jail for a week AND his employer fined £10,000 whether or not any damage was done. It would soon stop.

Perhaps Caroline Nokes could push this device through parliament and bring some kudos and much needed jobs to Romsey.

Ray Pickering

North Baddesley