weepej wrote:
graball wrote:
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If average speeds reduced by 1 mph, the accident rate would fall by approximately 5%.2, 3 This varies slightly according to road type, so that a 1 mph reduction in average speed would reduce accident frequency by about:
6% on urban main roads and residential roads with low average speeds
4% on medium speed urban roads and lower speed rural main roads
3% on the higher speed urban roads and rural single carriageway main roads.
Erm this suggests to me that roads with a higher speed limit are safer and have a smaller benefit from lowering the speed limit...any ideas why, Weepy?
Isn't it obvious.
"Higher speed urban roads" = no junctions no pedestrians, fenced off, designed for cars and cars only.
We've been through this before, you always bring up the "motorways are our safest roads so faster roads are safer" gig at every opportunity.
A total and utter logical fallacy.
Funny how that roads with no pedestrians have no pedestrian impacts on them a?
However, put a pedestrian on a motorway and they ain't gonna last for long before they're a big split up bag of meat, as we see so often.
I find it funnier how roads with the same environment, surrounds and population density have different speed limits all allegedly based on safety.
After all these years you still don’t understand the difference between a matter of safety and a matter of law. If a limit drops down from a
to
that is a point of law. If it was about safety then why have I, like every other driver, done up to 60mph on these previously
roads until recent changes to
where there has never been an accident? As always, this is despite incredible advances in car safety and protection for peds.
Perhaps we should all be retrospectively tracked down and prosecuted for having done 20mph over what the new limit is, yourself included of course because you wouldn't have been speeding at the time? Oh, I know why you’re whiter than white! You have never gone down a
at 60mph which has later become a
because you always knew it should have been a
in the first place on the grounds you knew it was too fast and dangerous.
In the same way, to make it simple for your brain to think of, if they dropped the alcohol limit for drivers to 50 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, on ocassions where drivers had 70 milligramme in their system, (under our current legal limit), they would now be drunk by definition. I'm not making a point for drinking
anything, I'm trying to show you the meaning of a point of law and how it differs from one year, and indeed one country, to another.
I’ve got a road nearby my home which, until recently, was a
and you would see a path running by the side which has been there since forever. Hang on! Pedestrians right next to a 60mph with junctions and driveways! Sounds a bit close to a motorway situation to me which you metioned as bad.
There ought to be carnage according to you but I’m sure you have a smart ass answer for why these places aren’t carpeted with "big split up bags of meat"