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Slowing everyone down does not deliver safer roads

Malcolm Heymer, Alliance of British Drivers, Dereham, Norfolk NR20
14 November 2014
 

Without wishing to add to Iain Reeve’s boredom with the speed camera debate (Letters LTT 31 Oct), I feel that he is rather missing the point.

He starts off well by saying that over 90% of accidents are caused by human error, a figure with which I agree. Unfortunately, he suggests this is proof of the need to reduce speeds, to save people from their mistakes. I believe it would have the opposite effect.

While some mistakes by road users are due to inexperience, the root cause of the...

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