Letter: What has happened to helping your fellow motorist?

I have been amused and also a little saddened by your story regarding the motorists stuck on Telford's Wrekin Retail Park car park.

What has happened with people helping those stuck to ease the problem?

I can remember travelling back from Bristol back in the early 1980s in dreadful weather on a coach.

On arriving at Wellington and, before the M54, Tan Bank was blocked by a stuck articulated lorry and numerous cars.

We climbed out of the coach and pushed the lorry up Tan Bank and then helped various drivers the same way.

Looking at the pictures; I cannot see anybody out helping to push vehicles, the person in the story mentions that all routes were bumper to bumper and there was not enough room to manoeuvre.

What has happened with helping your fellow motorist?

Or are most drivers content with sitting behind the wheel glaring at all around and thinking of whom to blame instead of trying to help?

Further, if the park looked like being full and more vehicles were exacerbating the problem, why didn't someone think about maybe stopping those extra cars entering the car park until the problem cleared a little.

There is nothing like thinking for yourself.

Mike Watkins

Shrewsbury

See also:

• Wrekin Retail Park apology after snow gridlock

• Shoppers stranded as snow hits Shropshire

• Trapped! Shoppers stuck on car park for hours in snow