Nuxx:5726cbbd-5b3a-4961-8775-50cdbed3b482@b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <5726cbbd-5b3a-4961-8775-50cdbed3b482@b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: OT: Nearly half of drivers believe 50mph in a 30mph is not a problem. Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 07:44:07 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 16 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242485047 5481 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2009 14:44:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 14:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1982 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:701889

On May 16, 9:59=A0am, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > A Co-op Insurance survey reveals that 41% of drivers feel that exceeding = the > speed limit by 20 mph is acceptable. This suggests that a very large > proportion of drivers cannot be trusted to stick to the limit and that > safety cameras are necessary to control traffic speeds. > > http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2009/05/04/crash-v...

Perhaps if there weren't so many grossly inappropriate 30mph limits around that would not be the case.

Drivers travelling at the 85th percentile speed are statistically the safest. Those who are instinctively controlling and/or anti-motorist may not like that fact, but it remains true nonetheless.