Speed Limits - On The Radio Today

[joggerjayne]

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.

[McMouse]

Round here there are lots of old codgers driving at 0 mph who seem to have inexplicable shunts.

[Aeolus]

Yes, you are right, but they are mostly little ones that you can walk away from. Just like a good landing (= controlled crash) in an aircraft.

[Aeolus]

Old codgers at 0 miles an hour are NOT driving they are parked!