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‘Moderate’ speeders are safer drivers than slow drivers

Malcolm Heymer, Traffic management adviser, Alliance of British Drivers, Dereham, Norfolk NR20
04 October 2013
 

Professor Stephen Stradling claims that drivers with penalty points for speeding are twice as likely to be involved in an accident than those without points (Letters LTT 20 Sep). Even if this is factually correct, it does not mean, as Prof Stradling clearly implies, that all drivers who speed are twice as likely to crash.

The reality is that all drivers exceed speed limits from time-to-time, to a greater or lesser degree. Those who claim otherwise are either lying or deluding themselves. An...

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