Comment on 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport

• Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, if it wasn’t for otherwise good citizens breaking laws they know to be wrong, those laws would never get changed.

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  • C4d@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think that law is going to get changed by repeatedly breaking it.

    I also don’t think it is a bad law. The probability of a pedestrian being fatally injured at 20mph is lower than at 30mph; older studies showed a nearly tenfold reduction; not sure what the figures would be now with the trend towards larger and heavier vehicles (and the offset by pedestrian-friendly design - EuroNCAP score for this). For residential and pedestrian heavy areas I think 20mph is appropriate.

    It is also worth bearing in mind that several areas in the UK have already committed to 20mph for residential areas.

    I think the more likely outcome is going to be changes to roads and enforcement.

    Here’s a .pdf factsheet from RoSPA that looks at 20mph zones.

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