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http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/09/2 ... -accident/

Only about 12 months after a rural NSL has had it's limits dropped to 40MPH and 30MPH, a fatal accident has happened on the 30MPH stretch.

Now it's obviously too early to say the cause of the accident but I have never known an accident on this road before and I have to wonder if the lower limit was to blame. It's a twisty rural on which you would be hard pressed to find many places to reach 60MPH and 40MPH would be most peoples choice of speed on most of this road but when it was a NSL, I felt that people took more care on it. In my experience the standards of driving have dropped on it since the lower limits came about. It's almost as though people see it as a 30MPH and treat it like it's an urban street, driving it with little caution. I've seen people drifting across the centre of the road since the limits been cut where I'm sure that when it was a NSL they would have been concentrating more because they were expecting people to be doing higher speeds. It's a fact in this case that cutting the speed limit hasn't stopped accidents.

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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.