Motorway Speed Limits

Speed Kills !! ~ ~ So say the advertising posters for the “Safer Driving” campaigns, and, off course, they are absolutely correct. Speed does in fact kill, but there again, so do many other things. ~ ~ The question that is at issue here is not if speed kills. We all know that you have much more chance of walking away from a shunt at 30mph than you have at 80mph. That’s only common sense. What is being asked is if the present speed limit of 70mph at present in force on our motorways (yes, it applies in Ireland too) is a realistic one, and if it saves lives by preventing ... more

As a relatively new driver (two years experience), I feel that I should defend those who you criticise as not having the experience to drive on the motorway. I have driven hundreds of miles on motorways, (normally with my dad as a passenger ) mostly towing and feel that people hogging a lane has more serious repercussions than people travelling at speeds that are safe for the conditions. I am not condoning speeding, (travelling above state speed limits) and realise that excessive speed can be a contributory factor in accidents but it is not the only factor. When travelling on an empty motorway ... more

~ For my 100th review, I wanted to write about something I have very strong views on. An emotive subject, one of which has had a succession of extremely high quality, yet varied opinions previously submitted to it, Motorway Speed Limits ~ A friend of mine never speeds! This may seem an unusually rash statement for an opening line, but it’s true. Owner of a pretty modern fourwheel drive vehicle, I can assure you he never speeds. All the time he has been in possession of this vehicle, he has never exceded any speed limit, infact he never comes close.....more rash statements? But, I can ... more

Everybody keeps on telling me that speed kills, but it doesn’t. People off on holiday to the great blue yonder travel at over five hundred miles per hour in the big jets and it doesn’t kill them. Fighter pilots chase each other all over the skies at mach 2 and it doesn’t kill them. If you jumped off the tallest building in the world you would hurtle downwards and reach speeds of over one hundred miles per hour but the being killed bit wouldn’t happen until you reached the road below and stopped travelling. I’m not being pedantic or even facetious; I’m just ... more

We have had it for years, its been broken millions of times, its there for a reason, so why do we have people with other ideas about it?? I am reffering to our 70 mph speed limit on the UK motoryway's. Its been there for donkeys years now, and to be honest how many of us even think about it when using the motorway? Most of us just sit there at whatever speed fels natural to us, even if it is at 85 mph! So why do we have speed limits on Motorways? After all they are long, straight roads without the normal hazards of driving in a town. The answer I think lies within road safety. How many of us ... more