Excessive or inappropriate speed can have a major impact on communities and also on the outcome of any collision. Overall, in 2022 1,766 people were killed on the UK roads and 28,941 were seriously injured. STATS19, collated from Police reporting at the scene, state that excess speed or traveling too fast for the conditions was a contributory factor in 25% of fatal collisions in the same year.
Despite vehicles becoming more powerful and able to reach top speeds quicker there is a change occurring across many towns and cities namely the lowering of speed limits. Local Authorities have had the ability to be able to use speeds other than 30mph or the National Speed Limit as far back as 1990, but more recently, 20mph is frequently used across whole town and city centres. The lowering of the limits are for the protection of vulnerable road users, the reduction of emissions and creating of safer communities.
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