Let's limit the speed of allvehicles
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AS A LORRY driver with over 40 years' experience Fin puzzled by UK speed legislation. I can see the safety rationale behind fitting speed limiters to trucks, but I'm confused about why we don't do the same for all traffic. After all the speed limit for cars is, at most, 70mph. yet cars (and vans) regularly break this.
Here in the Scottish Highlands a man was prosecuted just the other week for driving at 98mph on a single-carriageway road. Some of the crashes here over the past few years have been horrendous, too, and in most cases the police have cited speed as the cause. If you're doing 90mph and something happens you don't have a lot of room to manoeuvre.
I know it wouldn't he popular with the public, hull think drivers would be less frustrated if they were limited to 70mph. It would also save a fortune in policing and the cost of the accidents themselves, not to mention countless lives.
Why have a speed limit you are not going to enforce'?
Alex Stewart By e-mail