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Old 30-12-2011, 13:06   #64
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Re: 80mph speed limit 'would increase deaths by 20%'

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
So what happens when our 100mph plus speeder loses control due to, say, a tyre blowout, falling asleep, suffering a heart attack, getting distracted by something or whatever? Do his clearly superior driving abilities and reactions allow him to prevent his car overturning and careering out of control into oncoming traffic? Do they prevent the wreckage of his destroyed vehicle becoming an instant and serious threat to all the other motorists using that road at the time? Even if his car and reactions are up to it, what about those mere mortal road users who're suddenly confronted with the result of his actions? The car careering towards them or the wreckage all over the road? Does our super driver know how they're going to react? Does that even matter to him? Of course, such events can happen at 70mph but there's no doubt that the higher the speed, the less time there is for the driver and other road users to react to any event and the more likely it is that the outcome will be fatal.
Would you feel safer if he had one of these certificates you can get?
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