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No, you would expect given a scenario that could lead to a crash that many drivers would be crashing.

I can drive too fast down a road for the conditions, but if nothing untoward happens I'm going to get away with it.

I can probably drive at 50mph round a stationary ice cream van 100 times and nothing will happen, that doesn't mean I wasn't driving too fast.

Yup, except when the come off a left hand bend and there happens to be a car coming the other way just at exactly the wrong time. A rare event, but if it happens a catastrophic one.

I'm often surprised by the degree of lean of other cars when I'm following them round a bend.

Yes but that wouldn't then be one of your, "falling off the road", type accidents but more like a head on, wouldn't it?

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

Well, yes, but it would have been a nice safe falling off the road type crash, had the other car not intervened.

Not necessarily, it could have been a "Oh look I'm onthe wrong side of the road but managed to correct it" type of incident.

Your problem is, you tend to over simplify driving, it's really not like a scalextric track wherby you are either "in the groove" or "falling off the track", real life driving has many variations on a perfect line around a perfect corner.

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.