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Safety measures on almost half of A-roads in the UK are "inadequate", according to a new star-rating system.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7124529.stm

So the way to reduce the number of accidents is to improve the roads then? I thought the solution was more and more speed cameras.

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Brian

If this work was done by the iam trust someone has funded it
It wasnt cheap.
see report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/p ... _roads.pdf
"we have to make the roads safer, please have one of our road pricing black boxes.... "

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

Worryingly they are claiming a link between the speed limit and the impact speed. p21 clearly they have not considered the psychological effects that lower speed limits bring.

We know roads with lower limits have higher occurrences of speeding so I fail to see why a road should be given a higher score because the limit is lower.

All that aside from any link between the speed limit and the accident risk or likely impact speed.

Road safety is not about physics its about psychology - surely the IAM understand this?