National Speed Limits are unfit for purpose - here's why
This is the first actual content-filled post! If you missed the introduction, catch up on it here. In this post, I'll be examining one of the most touched on aspects of road safety: speed limits. With excessive or inappropriate speed being a factor in 15% of road traffic collisions resulting in death as well as the unavoidable laws of physics, it goes without speaking that controlling the speed of traffic plays a huge part in improving road safety. National Speed Limits and why they are no longer fit for purpose Ever since the various national speed limits were set in the 1960s, there has been plenty of debate about them being too high or too low. Perhaps unsurprisingly, too - the offence of speeding was the first time middle and upper-class people got into trouble with the police at the time. The scepticism they showed towards the effectiveness of speed limits seems to have transferred over to the next generations. In case you need reminding, the current national speed limit...