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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Could you please explain how doing 71mph along a straight empty dual carrigeway equals death/injury/accident but 70mph along the same stretch of road doesn't?
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Nobody has made such a claim. For the umpteenth time what is being said is that the faster the speed the more serious the results of any accident may be. You can be the only car on that straight dual carriageway doing 60 mph, 70 mph or 80 mph and can have a blowout. The result of that blowout can mean injuries or death and the severity of those increases with speed.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
On motorways with the flow of traffic.
It's a fact that the safest form of traffic is that which has a relative speed of zero.
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Quite correct but again if all vehicles are travelling at the same speed and an accident happens for whatever reason then the consequences are more serious the higher the speed.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Overtaking when safe on a single carrigeway when there's some dolt who doesn't know what a white disc with a black diaginal line means and insists on doing 40mph (and normally speeds up to 45mph when they hit a 40zone! Or you get someone who sticks at 50mph no matter what the speed limit is, so they're not going slow for safety's sake!)
I'd rather get past them as quickly as possible, even if that means going over 60mph for a few seconds
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Have you ever stopped to think that some drivers are going slower than the maximum speed limit for a reason? If the car that you want to overtake is just slightly below the speed limit then there is no real reason to overtake it other than impatience. If it is going a fair bit below the speed limit then by all means overtake it if it is safe and legal to do so which doesn't mean you have to exceed the limit to do so.
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Originally Posted by Raistlin
I'm a firm believer that, on certain roads and at certains times of the day/night, there should be a minimum speed limit and that the maximum speed limits should be increased.
For example, motorways/dual-carriageways. Why should I be restricted to 70Mph at 2 O'clock in the morning on a long straight bit of road when there's nobod else about?
Similarly, single carriage-way bypasses. Where I live there are a number of long, open roads. Well-lit and clear of all pedestrians etc. Why should I, in the wee hours of the morning, be forced to sit behind some muppet who doesn't want to travel above 30Mph in a National Speed Limit zone? I can't overtake because the lines down the middle are solid, I can't go any faster because the guy in front says that I can't.
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Stopping distances at night are greater than during the day, a fact ascertained by tests on reaction times.
If the lines down the centre are solid then there is a reason for them being so. Have a guess what that reason may be.
Again, why is the driver doing 30 mph a muppet? There may be a valid reason for him doing that speed.