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Angua · 31-12-2011, 16:41

Won't matter what the speed limit is soon anyway. The roads will be too congested to do more than 30 regardless.

However, I will side with those who say speed does not kill. It will always be failing to drive to the road conditions at speed that causes the problems. I regularly travel with someone who seems to have one speed - 40mph. He has been stopped for speeding in the same place (a wide road with good visibility) 3 times on the trot. Yet for most of the time he is well under the speed limit.

31-12-2011, 16:41	#88
Angua Inactive Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Expanding Town with crap roads Age: 66 Services: ? BB, basic phone. Share of Disney+ Posts: 7,674	Re: 80mph speed limit 'would increase deaths by 20%' Won't matter what the speed limit is soon anyway. The roads will be too congested to do more than 30 regardless. However, I will side with those who say speed does not kill. It will always be failing to drive to the road conditions at speed that causes the problems. I regularly travel with someone who seems to have one speed - 40mph. He has been stopped for speeding in the same place (a wide road with good visibility) 3 times on the trot. Yet for most of the time he is well under the speed limit.