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Originally Posted by Angua
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.
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Agree in part but with increased speed comes increased momentum, increased stopping distances and a proportional lowering of reaction time. Even leaving possible driver error aside, a blowout at 30mph or 70mph isn't likely to be as dangerous (to both the occupants of the vehicle and other road users in the vicinity) as one at 100mph.