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Low traffic density?

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

In that case then , it's not high speeds that kill, rural roads with lots of nasty trees just waiting to jump in front of you, but traffic density that kills?

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Could it be high speed in dense traffic that is the killer?

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

That's just going down the government's propoganda line.

As it happens the two main rural roads near me, that do seem to be in the news a lot for road deaths, are the busiest roads and they seem to carry a lot of HGVs, approx 40% of the traffic during "daytime hours" (after 9am and before 5pm). A lot of accidents do involve lorries (I'm assuming that this is because of the large number of them and the fact that the average lorry is twice as long as a car so you probably have more chance of hitting a lorry than a car) BUT the main point here is that, because of the large number of HGVs on these two busy trunk roads, is that it is rarely possible to travel far, in excess of 40MPH.

So mr Fitzpatrick, why are some of the most dangerous roads that I know of, rarely travelled at in excess of 40MPH and HOW is dropping the NSL to 50MPH going to reduce accidents on these roads?

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

God forbid! I am just throwing out suggestions which you are able to rebut to my satisfaction

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

Wierdly, the petition in my sig, which had pretty much flatlined at 35,500 has suddenly jumped by 2000 in a couple of days. Someone somewhere has picked up on it....