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Originally Posted by ian@huth
Many speed limits were set a long time ago and cars have got better in many respects but have drivers got better? A car doing 40 mph in a 30 mph area will cause just as much injury to a child it hits today as a car doing the same many years ago. Roads are much busier now and performance of vehicles has increased dramatically. A rapidly accelerating modern car can soon make what looked a safe time to cross the road a potential accident, particularly if the driver is more concerned with the modern invention of a mobile phone he is holding to his ear. Too many drivers have the attitude that accidents only happen to other people and that their reaction times are good enough to cope with any incident. They view speed limits as a challenge not a warning that there is a reason for them being there.
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All valid points, but the issue here is about speeding. Try stopping from 30 mph in a 20 year old car, then compare it to the same in a modern car. If all limits were 5mph there would probably be no fatalities, but that's not realistically practical. SO a line has to be drawn. The issue would be whether that line that was drawn years ago now needs to be moved?