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Scrap the policy that promotes unreasonable speed limits

Malcolm Heymer, Dereham, Norfolk NR20
20 August 2010
 

Amid all the controversy about the consequences of switching off speed cameras (ibid), one issue gets little if any mention – the appropriateness of speed limits themselves.

Research since the late 1930s, originally in the USA but later confirmed elsewhere, including Britain, shows that the most effective speed limits in terms of smooth traffic flow, low spread of speeds and minimum accident frequency, are those set at around the 85th percentile level, i.e. the speed that 85 per cent of...

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