{"id":2947,"date":"2025-04-30T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/?page_id=2947"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:17:15","slug":"more-about-speed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/?page_id=2947","title":{"rendered":"More On Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Story So Far&#8230;..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have seen that the speed kills mantra is a safety scare that costs lives <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have seen that exceeding the speed limit is a negligable contributory factor in accidents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have seen that speeds limits are now set arbitrarily anyway at the whim of local politicians who are not qualified to do this in the way the road engineers are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have seen that crash statistics are a minefield that can be used to support whatever activists want them to support<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CRUCIALLY we have seen that in order to minimise the risk of crashes, speed should not  be viewed as a factor in isolation to two other factors, Surprise and Space because all three must be kept IN BALANCE for crashes to be prevented.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"62\" src=\"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Risk-Model-image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3146\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Next?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all the above in mind, we now delve deeper into this topic under the following tabs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speed Variance and Crash Risk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speed Limits Target Safe Drivers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proper Speed Limits Increase Safety<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We begin however with some compelling insights from Sense BC, a road safety campaigning organisation based in British Columbia who have a long history of expertise in this field and whos video confirms what most driver know or suspect &#8211; that we are being played&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story So Far&#8230;.. We have seen that the speed kills mantra is a safety scare that costs lives We have seen that exceeding the speed limit is a negligable contributory factor in accidents We have seen that speeds limits are now set arbitrarily anyway at the whim of local politicians who are not qualified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2947","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2947\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betterdrivingsaveslives.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}