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The Curse of the Lead Right Foot
According to "government figures" 67% of all road accident fatalities happen on A and B roads in Britain, so, in an attempt to eradicate this "epidemic", the speed limit on these roads is to be lowered from 60 to 50 miles per hour. Now, if you take these hopeless statistics at face value as the government does, then dropping the speed limit to 50 mph on such roads would seem to be a prudent move; but remember, that back in the glorious days of the empire there was a word for such easily influenced people, and that word was A*HOLES!
Anyone with half a brain would be able to point out that three or four fundamental flaws in this logic. Firstly, the reason that 67% of such accidents occur on such roads is that (a) there are a hell of a lot more A&B roads than there are motorways, dirt tracks, paths wide enough for a ery irresponsible drive, and (b) therefore a greatly higher percentage of traffic uses these roads as a result. Ergo: the more traffic, the more accidents.
Lowering the speed limit is knee jerk reaction to a problem that is, on the whole, no worse than it was 10 years ago. Let's not forget that sitting in a motorized steel box and then propelling it down any road in the world at 60 mph is a dangerous and unnatural state for a human being. Cars are dangerous, very dangerous; we accept
To be continued ..
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