WE are always being encouraged to “think bike” but given the laxity given to all bike users whether it’s motor cyclists overtaking at 10 or 20 mph over the speed limit, or cyclists on the pavement are we asking the wrong people to “Think”?

Yesterday evening I was taking my four-year-old grandson back to his parents in Malmesbury Road, Southampton. It was dark and the street lighting is not very good.

I walked round to the passenger side and opened the door for my grandson when a cyclist on the pavement with no lights crashed into the door at speed. He mumbled “sorry” and jumped on his bike and was gone.

The door hinges have been bent back so that the door can’t be used properly and doubtless this will be an expensive repair job. What concerns me even more is that a second or so later my grandson would have stepped out of the car and would have been hit by him.

I have reported the incident to the police but with no details of the cyclist nothing can be done. Every day in Shirley we are having to jump out of the way of cyclists using the pavement and weaving in and out of the pedestrians at well over walking speed. Nobody, least of all the police, seems to do anything about it. It seems we are all conditioned to accept this infringement although I can’t remember any change to the law on the subject.

The least that can happen if people, cyclists or motor cyclists are breaking the law is the “Think other people”.

LINDA JOHNSON, Maybush, Southampton.