Auto Express has an interesting article covering a Danish study – which showed that minor speed limit increases made the roads safer! One of the results of the study was to show that moving from 50-56 miles per hour reduced the speed differential between the fastest and the slowest drivers. This in turn meant less overtaking making roads safer for all. Visit Auto Express to read the rest of the article. I would doubt that we would see anything like this soon however. The government did after all rubbish the idea of 80 mile per hour speed limits on the motorway…
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