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Exceeding a road’s design speed will cause accidents

David Cummins, Nottingham NG3
16 December 2011
 

The letters of the pro-drivers lobby are like reality TV. They are drivel, shouldn't be allowed on LTT, but I only have myself to blame for not turning them off.

Keith Peat’s latest letter is an example. He states as fact “Speeding, the simple act of driving above a number on a pole, cannot cause accidents.”

Roads are designed. They have radii, forward visibility and superelevation. Even where the road may have been there before design guidance, the paraphernalia associated...

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