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Old 27th April 2001 | 16:44
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Dr Jekyll
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Total road deaths caused by excessive speed run at around 200 a year for the UK as a whole (Transport Research Laboratory report 323), so where is this county with 365 a day?

Included in this figure are cases where the speeds involved were excessive for the conditions but within the speed limit, so speed cameras would have made no difference. And very few of these accidents take place on motorways. Those motorway accidents that do tend to take place in conditions of heavy traffic and/or bad weather where no one is anywhere near the speed limit, and are generally caused by tailgating or careless lane changing.

To anticipate the likely response, I am just as anxious as you to see something done about those who drive fast and dangerously, but I also want something done about those who drive slowly and dangerously, or just plain dangerously. The increase in speed cameras is being accompanied by propaganda to the effect that all accidents could be avoided if only nobody exceeded a speed limit, thereby encouraging drivers to believe that as long as they are driving relentlessly at the speed limit irrespective of the circumstances, any danger that arises must be the other guys fault.