All as i can say is i hope you never lose a relative or a loved one to a tragic car accident Michelle Hutton.

For some families it is more than just a tribute to owe they have lost, it is also acceptance as to who they have lost.

Very selfish attutude michelle hunton,people do not always die in a bed,if they are killed horrifically on a roadside or on the road is the pain of the bereaved the same as someone who died in a bed ,i don't think so,everybody is different,some take a long time to heal and some never heal from a loss,as any councillor will say everybody is different and they all heal in their own way and their own time,who are we to tell them when to stop,besides how many people see these tributes and slow down because they know what it means,how many lives has that saved.Why do you regard a tribute as "clutter".

My mam died in the West Cumberland Hospital. I am not allowed to lay tributes next to the bed she died in so why do people think it is alright to clutter the roadside with flowers and teddy bears?

Council should be concentrating on getting rid of potholes. They are there for more than 12 weeks and a hazzard to the highways.

If I drive past a tribute at the side of the road it makes me think about being more careful, far from being a distraction it makes me less likely to be involved in an accident. Some of the local incidents I remember and even knew the people involved which adds to the effect it has on me and my driving.

I think it's a lovely idea to leave flowers in someone's memory, but why do the majority of people leave them there still in the packaging? If the flowers were taken out of the polythene wrapping they would just biodegrade naturally over time.

So some people think flowers at the accident scene cause safer driving and others think they cause more dangerous driving. There needs to be a full statistical survey done on all accident spots, with and without flowers, to determine once and for all which is more dangerous. Come on Copeland, get the figures first before taking rash actions.

I lost my own son through a road traffic accident five years ago and cannot bear to go past where he was killed. Our liason officer placed flowers for us but on finding out one of his friends had put a cross at the site we asked him to remove it for us. He wasn't there, he is in our hearts and always will be. We still miss him so much, but do not want a reminder at the roadside.

I agree with the comment left by Jinny, these tributes also act as a speeding deterant to others.

Following the logic of Jinny, the way to reduce speeding is not to have official speed limit signs, but a bunch of flowers instead, as drivers take more notice of these because 'someone died here so it really is necessary to slow down'. Perhaps there could be a pilot scheme in some accident blackspots to test this new approach.