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From 1926 to 1930 under a nationwide 20mph speed limit, vehicle
numbers rose by 35% but deaths rose by 50%. From 1930, with no limit whatever except 30mph in towns, until 1938 (the last full year before the blackout) vehicle numbers again rose by 35%, but fatalities fell by 9%. Whatever the reason - and Claire Armstrong of Safe Speed (report 18 April) might well be right that drivers are more dangerous when distracted and inattentive - these figures are a matter of record in the DfT's own files. It seems that road users will again be condemned to suffer the consequences of the DfT's failure to learn the lessons of history and from their irrational and increasingly bizarre obsession with speed and speeding despite, as you reported on 28th September 2006*, it being a factor in only a small minority of accidents.
numbers rose by 35% but deaths rose by 50%. From 1930, with no limit whatever except 30mph in towns, until 1938 (the last full year before the blackout) vehicle numbers again rose by 35%, but fatalities fell by 9%. Whatever the reason - and Claire Armstrong of Safe Speed (report 18 April) might well be right that drivers are more dangerous when distracted and inattentive - these figures are a matter of record in the DfT's own files. It seems that road users will again be condemned to suffer the consequences of the DfT's failure to learn the lessons of history and from their irrational and increasingly bizarre obsession with speed and speeding despite, as you reported on 28th September 2006*, it being a factor in only a small minority of accidents.
Asked on 30 May 2009 by
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Honest John
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