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A campaign to reduce the number of car crashes in residential streets will come to Tunbridge Wells later this month.

The Street Lights Mean 30 scheme aims to make motorists aware of the 30mph speed limit in built-up areas.
The campaign team were due to visit Tunbridge Wells this weekend to get their message across with a show for shoppers.
But the visit has been delayed until Saturday, November 28, due to the poor weather forecast for this weekend.
The campaign was launched as two-thirds of crashes in which people are killed or seriously injured happen in streets with 30mph or less speed limits.

Sarah Temlett, for Kent and Medway Safety Camera Partnership, said: “Driving just a few miles above that speed limit can mean the difference between life and death – 85 per cent of people hit by vehicles at 40mph die, compared to 20 per cent at 30mph.”
Shoppers are now invited to come along to the Millennium Clock in Tunbridge Wells on November 28 to enjoy a performance by the Street Light Singers, who will be dressed in 9ft street light costumes and singing a variety of songs, between 11am and 3pm.

They will be joined by the Street Lights team who will be offering information and advice, handing out free goodies and giving shoppers the chance to enter a competition to win one of three iPod nanos.

A recent survey found 73 per cent of drivers didn’t realise that street lights mean you are driving in a 30mph zone, unless otherwise stated.
Ms Tremlett added: “Many drivers who receive speeding tickets say they had no idea they were travelling in a 30mph zone. Yet by driving at 35mph instead of 30mph, you are twice as likely to kill someone.

“This campaign aims to get across, in a light-hearted way, the very serious message that Street Lights Mean 30.”
The Tunbridge Wells event is one of eight being held across Kent throughout October, November and December.

Further details about the campaign are available at www.streetlightsmean30.co.uk.
POSTED: 12/11/2009 10:45:12

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Sarah Temlett, for Kent and Medway Safety Camera Partnership, said: “Driving just a few miles above that speed limit can mean the difference between life and death – 85 per cent of people hit by vehicles at 40mph die, compared to 20 per cent at 30mph.”

Listen, if we get cars to move at only 10mph there will be 100 times less accidents than at 30mph AND, since people are only killed at speeds over 30 even if they are hit at 10 they will not be killed