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Speed Kills

Research has shown that roughly 30% of all collisions have an element of excess or inappropriate speed. Home office research has also shown that a 1mph reduction in the average speed of vehicles on a given length of road will equal a 5% reduction in collisions.

And the severity of injury in a collision increases with the speed of the vehicle so it is argued that speed is a contributing element in most fatal collisions.

Areas that have installed and operated speed cameras have experienced a reduction of up to 47% in personal injury collisions at the camera sites and 35%across the respective local authority areas. So whilst it is difficult to attribute the cause of specific collisions to speed, it is clearly a factor

Here a few extra facts to consider

If you are involved in a head on collision with another vehicle and you are both travelling towards each other at only 15mph, your impact speed will be 30mph
If you collide whilst both moving at 30mph then your impact speed doubles to 60mph
So you can see how the severity of the accident increases with your speed

But 30mph feels slow doesn't it?

Well, at 30mph you are travelling at about 44 feet per second
That's about 13.5 metres
Which is about 3 car lengths
And you've done all that in a second or a blink of an eye

But everybody else drives fast and they don't all have accidents

That's true
But those that do become statistics
And others, well they just create them

Do you know your stopping distances?

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