On roads with a 30mph maximum, 50% of car drivers break the law, says the annual DfT report on speed limit compliance.

Statistics published today by the U.K. Department for Transport (DfT) show that in 2022 85% of the car drivers in Great Britain broke the law by driving faster than the speed limit in 20mph zones. On roads with a 30mph maximum, 50% of car drivers broke the law, reveals the annual DfT report on speed limit compliance.

The measurements are based on speed data from a sample of Automatic Traffic Counters (ATCs) around the country. These exclude locations where external factors might restrict driver behavior, such as at junctions, on hills, beside sharp bends or where speed cameras are visible, says the DfT report.

  • MidgePhoto@photog.social
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    1 year ago

    @wewbull @Syldon
    If by speeding you mean 35 in a 30 zone, then will the drivers who know their journey is urgent and important, as are try, and that they are more skillful than those around them, drive 15mph above the limit, or 5mph?

    They’ll stand out rather more if the former, and have a likelihood of killing a hit pedestrian or cyclist reduced by the change if the latter.

    I suspect the chap recently apprehended for 61 in a 30 zone past children might not change, yes.

    • wewbullEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think most people are actively engaged when they speed and are rationally thinking about such things. They just travel at a speed which feels “right” for the conditions. Just changing the sign changes nothing for such people as it’s still the same road which has the same feel.