From memory, that would bring us in line with Europe. We have actually 'enjoyed' a higher legal limit but the point which slaps me in the face is this, from you teabelly.
teabelly wrote:
...depending on general driving ability someone nissed pewt could be safer than some sober idiot.
And that's the truth!
But, just like speed and speeding, I can be very much safer at a high speed than some fool going much slower and under a posted sign limit.
Again, none of these measures are properly addressing safety! All that is being done is to identify an aspect of driving, demonise it, and then sell it to the punters. This paranoia, and that is what it is, has become rife in today's society.
I speed, therefore I kill
I drink, therefore I kill
My yogurt is a day, or a week, past its sell by date, therefore it's inedible
My parents slapped me once, therefore it’s child abuse
You can’t eat lard, it’ll kill you
You must eat five a day, you must do everything Government tells you because they are good and always right...
If little Johnny fell into the canal and drowned, the one next to my local pub, I would expect a full scale investigation followed by barriers preventing anyone within ten feet of it ever again.
Er, maybe Johnny had what used to be known as an accident! Maybe his parents were morons and they should have supervised! Maybe, just maybe, it was just a freak event that didn’t need a million pound investigation for which the rest of us have to pay the price!
STOP trying to sanitise and disinfect my life to the lowest common denominating moron. STOP telling me speed kills when you have no evidence whatsoever to level at me that I am, or have ever been, a threat because of the way I drive. And STOP wasting my tax pounds on bu11sh1t!