As mentioned earlier speedlimits need to be set properly.
Consider this scenario - a new by-pass is built 5 miles of brand new dual carriageway, good tarmac, straight. So what do they do? set a 40mph limit and put speed cameras all the way along it.
However, you can turn off this new road and onto a Twisty Turny single carriageway B road that has a crap road surface with blind corners, blind summits, concealed entrances with farm vehicles doing about 15mph - and the speed limit on this road???? 60mph -
Then you get the idiots that do 40mph on the country lanes and when the get to the villages what do they do?? carry on going 40mph through the village.
Then there's also the idiots that refuse to overtake caravans/tractors causing massive tailbacks because the people that can overtake are now too far back to do it safely.
I was recently caught by a " mobile safety camera" this safety camera was hidden in a plain white van, it was Sunday at 11:00am on a sunny day on a Dual Carriageway with a 30mph limit without another car on the road at the time - I would like to know how that "Safety Camera" was making the roads any safer???
The amount of people caught speeding had risen by hundreds of percent but the amount of people caught Drunk Driving or dangerous driving or driving without insurance or driving a vehicle unfit for the road has DECREASED. Why because there are less and less traffic police out there becuase of the cameras.
Whose the more dangerous me doing 40mph on a dual carriageway on Sunday morning or somebody still P!$$ed from Sat night or somebody off their head on drugs from Sat Night or somebody with four bald tyres.
As you might be able to tell it really winds me up.