I wish all those who moan about the 20mph speed limit would read this. Cutting your speed is hardly a hardship - it just takes a bit of getting used to
First year of 20mph limit saw drop in casualties https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78w1891z03o
@JeniParsons people don't listen, no matter what stats you show them.
I can show with actual stats/numbers that it makes absolutely no measurable difference if delivery drivers do 60 or 70 on the motorways on regional delivery routes. None, it's pretty much random dependent on traffic conditions. In the most ideal of conditions it makes a small difference.
But they still drive at 70...
The same for 50 versus 60 on single carriageway. I mean, they're not permitted to do 60 in a 3.5t van but they do anyway...
Back when I had the business I had to fire a guy because despite being told all this he kept doing 70-80 when he should have been doing 50. "Because it gets me there faster." Nope.. it gets you to the next traffic queue faster. (He was let go mainly because his driving resulted in points on his license which he didn't disclose, despite regular queries, so was thus effectively driving uninsured. Only person I ever fired and it still weighs on me. It was a final straw situation.)
Yeah, at age 19, I was given a 7.5 ton truck towing a compresser to drive. I drove it for about 12 months before someone realized that I was not legally entitled to drive that combination and thus that it was uninsured. The 7.5 ton truck was OK with the standard car license (that I had just passed the test for) but towing a trailer (in the shape of a diesel compresser) Was not permitted until you reached 21 YOA!
