As Fat Freddy Would Say
. . . but he was never the smartest of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. And thankfully, UK drivers stick to the speed limit, according to the Department for Transport’s A Safer Way: Consultation on Making Britain’s Roads the Safest in the World report:
Click through on the graph and download the entire report from the DfT - it’s both encouraging and thoroughly dispiriting reading.
Research suggests that pedestrians struck at 30 mph have about a 1 in 5 chance of being killed. At 20 mph the chance of a pedestrian dying is 1 in 40.
(highlighting of this report was yet another one from Tom Vanderbilt. Visit his blog & buy the book if you like what you read!)
“A Safer Way: Consultation on Making Britain’s Roads the Safest in the World”
They wrote this with a straight face?
So if they have one less death in 2009 than the millions that are killed in the second safest country, will they then sit back and say “That’s it, job done!”
Does this include people killed by pollution?
Andy - give them a break - it’s about the only thing we’re even close to being the ‘best’ at and we can’t let those damned scandinavians beat us at our own game. It’s bad enough that we no longer win any more at cricket.
I think the spread of 20mph zones is excellent news, and given our crap cycling lanes will probably do a lot more to encourage cycling than any amount of paint on the road.
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