Slower Speeds for Road Safety
Watching what you eat and taking regular exercise are likely to contribute towards your enjoying a long and healthy life. That’s if you don’t get killed or injured on our increasingly congested roads.
The UK-Roadsafety.co.uk website provide a sobering set of statistics regarding the cost in terms of death, injury and environmental impact caused by road traffic. But what is the answer?
Slower speeds would contribute enormously towards raising survival rates from road accidents. Perhaps we should follow the example of Alderney in the Channel Islands where the top speed on their ten miles of roads is only 35mph.
Vehicle manufacturers could do a lot to encourage people to drive more slowly. Cars produced today are optimised for travelling at about 30mph. Travelling at slower speeds means less fuel efficiency and higher emissions. Manufacturers could re-tune vehicles to be more fuel efficient at 20mph and restrict their top speeds to only 70mph. After all, there are no public roads in the UK where you can legally drive at more than this speed so why are some of these modern high speed vehicles even allowed on the road?
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