Speed Limits
| Keeping within the limits Speeding contributes to the 34,351 serious injuries and 3,221 deaths that occur on Britain's roads each year. Speed limits have been set for a reason; the risk of causing death or serious injury when driving even a few miles over this limit is significant. Tackling speeding reduces the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads. You can make a difference by simply checking your speed according to the national speed limit, your vehicle type and the driving conditions. Don't just slow down for the speed cameras! |
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| Driving too fast for the conditions causes or contributes to one third of road crashes. Excessive speed contributes to 12% of all injury collisions, 18% of crashes resulting in a serious injury and 28% of all collisions which result in a fatality Drivers travelling at higher speeds will have less time to identify and react to what is happening around them. It takes longer for the vehicle to stop and as a result the crash will be more severe, causing greater injury to the occupants and any pedestrian or rider hit by the vehicle. Approximately two-thirds of all crashes in which people are killed or injured happen on roads with a speed limit of 30 mph or less. At 35 mph a driver is twice as likely to kill someone as they are at 30 mph.  At 30 mph a vehicles travels approximately 44 feet or 13.4 metres (about 3 car lengths) every second. Even in good conditions, the difference in stopping distance between 30 mph and 35 mph is an extra 21 feet (6.4 metres), more than 2 car lengths. Know your Signals leaflet - Safecam  Know Your Signals Leaflet *60 if articulated or towing a trailer | ||
