Every week we look back at some of the biggest stories that got you talking, and highlight a few comments that stood out to us.

The week, the big story that got you talking was one highlighting the dangers drivers face on the A47. Campaigners have been pressing for improvements to the A47 following eight deaths on the road in the space of 10 weeks.

Here are just a few of your comments about the story:

Thoreauwasright:

Whilst I concede that the concrete patchwork west of Dereham is far from ideal I would suggest that it's less a case of the roads needing improving but people's driving. Whenever we have a spell of bad weather, headlines urge people to 'drive carefully' as if it's o.k. to drive carelessly at other times. Be patient, leave a safe distance between vehicles, know your capabilities and those of your vehicle and drive according to the conditions - it's not rocket science!

Patrick:

I am very sorry for those involved and for the families ... but -- completely agree with Thoreauwasright and with melalmighty -- we need improved driving and awareness; but how can that be imposed on those who 'know' they are the best drivers in the world? Disagree with Mr Freeman - yesterday I heard the recorded clip of him saying that 'our roads are more dangerous than most ...' until I was wearied by such nonsense. If he had said that motorists drive worse on Norfolk's roads he would have been so much nearer to the truth! A road is a strip of tarmac after all.. nothing more, not dangerous, not malicious, not malevolent ... A head-on collision is caused by two cars using the same piece of tarmacadam at the same time and heading towards each other. Not by the road itself.

Electra:

You are all so right, with the exception of DR. It is the drivers who are dangerous. Do we really need Freeman MP getting up on his hind legs and telling us he is going to write to the Minister? What's he going to do to the letter? Stand on the side of the road and wave it to get people to slow down. The only way to get people to behave is to prosecute murderous drivers very severely. You are not going to drive really badly if you stand to get a ten year prison sentence with hard labour. And as for 'good' drivers. Don't get involved. If there is some steaming idiot coming up behind you at a zillion miles an hour because they think that depressing the accelerator pedal makes them a mighty man then you slow down because you can just as easily be killed by some murderous driver hitting you from behind as from the front or side. Let them go. If they drive that dangerously then they choose their own fate. But if they kill others then call them what they are - Murderers. Someone is dead and they have killed them. Why do we pussyfoot around calling them dangerous drivers. They are murderers. And if they do survive a crash where they have killed someone they should serve a life sentence.

jackie warby:

having lost my husband on the counties roads its not the roads that are dangerous!! its the idiots that drive on them.sorry has to be said he died on a notorious road but it was the foreign driver on the wrong side of that killed him not the road

George Ezekial:

The design of a road, as Daisy Roots has implied, can influence the incident frequency on any given kilometre of road. Yet if the drivers supposedly in control of these vehicles were to drive to the prevailing conditions then there would be far fewer road traffic incidents and the Evening News would have to report more businesses opening or stocking new lines.

Christopher Neave:

Lots of interesting comments. There are many roads in Norfolk in far worse condition than the A47. I do not drive along the road very often but with a small van I generally stick to 50mph and am surprised at the number of cars and even high roof lwb vans that go past at up to 80 mph or more. IMO speed is one cause of many accidents and driving without due care for others and the roadweather conditions is another. My son, 19 yrs old drives a 65 ft refrigerated artic every week and has said he is amazed at the risks some drivers take to pass him. Trucks are limited to 40 on single carriageway, 50 on dual and 60 on motorways.

expat:

You can't make roads (or cars either) safer. You can only make them easier to use, and easier to go faster, easier to drive using a mobile phone instead of watching the road and easier to think you are in a 'safe' cocoon. Only drivers can be made safer.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the story with their opinions and thoughts.

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