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Missed the full details, but ...
When people drive more slowly, they feel safer, so they focus less on the actual road. They enter a mental comfort zone.
12% of accidents are caused by speed.
40% of accidents are caused by distractions ... things that catch people's eye, or attract their attention ... including changes in the speed limit, speed cameras, and things that people look at because they are in their slow driving comfort zone.
So does this mean that ... ?
A motorist driving at 40mph is more than three times LESS likely to have an accident than a motorist driving at 20mph.
When people drive more slowly, they feel safer, so they focus less on the actual road. They enter a mental comfort zone.
12% of accidents are caused by speed.
40% of accidents are caused by distractions ... things that catch people's eye, or attract their attention ... including changes in the speed limit, speed cameras, and things that people look at because they are in their slow driving comfort zone.
So does this mean that ... ?
A motorist driving at 40mph is more than three times LESS likely to have an accident than a motorist driving at 20mph.
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No. At best fewer accidents but with exponentiall
08:22 Tue 08th Apr 2014
I know for a fact that speeding a little on a motorway journey keeps me more alert, If I stick to 70, things get boring, the road noise drones and the engine is too quiet !
Also, round town there are probably too many road signs, the brain can only process about 5 at a time, so 5 road signs and then a stopped car...
Also, round town there are probably too many road signs, the brain can only process about 5 at a time, so 5 road signs and then a stopped car...
Yes - if I remember a defensive driving course, 80% of accidents are at less than 20mph - what that doesn't measure is injury/death.
The difference in terms of 20mph and 30mph in terms of injury is more than double, why I am advocate for an American style system of 20mph in front of schools at drop-off and pick-up, double points for fines, and 20mph in clear residential areas like estates.
The difference in terms of 20mph and 30mph in terms of injury is more than double, why I am advocate for an American style system of 20mph in front of schools at drop-off and pick-up, double points for fines, and 20mph in clear residential areas like estates.
Aeolus, my brother-in-law managed to hit a wild boar at 90, just north of Bordeaux.......should have seen the mess that made of the undercarriage of his X5.
He got it into a nearby autoroute service area and a couple of truckers and him were able to sort the radiator out - however 3km up the autoroute, the water started to go..... into an 'aire' and then, as they were there, a gendarme came up, the papers for the insurance on him (it's a fairly common event around there) and, even better, the horns off the wild boar as a trophy! Anyway, he was brilliant and with a hunting knife , he started to shape 'bouchons' (corks) with it from some branches and successfully bunged everything up, to the point that they managed to get to their overnight stay with friends in the Cognac area. There, the bro-in-law was able to patch things up further and they made it back to here the next day with no hitches.
He got it into a nearby autoroute service area and a couple of truckers and him were able to sort the radiator out - however 3km up the autoroute, the water started to go..... into an 'aire' and then, as they were there, a gendarme came up, the papers for the insurance on him (it's a fairly common event around there) and, even better, the horns off the wild boar as a trophy! Anyway, he was brilliant and with a hunting knife , he started to shape 'bouchons' (corks) with it from some branches and successfully bunged everything up, to the point that they managed to get to their overnight stay with friends in the Cognac area. There, the bro-in-law was able to patch things up further and they made it back to here the next day with no hitches.
