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Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ladel@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Even with the caveats about limited data and untangling causation and correlation, the statistics are striking: the first year of a scheme in Wales where the speed limit on urban roads was lowered to 20mph resulted in about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured.

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[–] j4yt33@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thinking about the absolute inability of the average Brit to drive like a sane person... we should

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

The scary thing is British driving ability appears on the high end of the spectrum from my experience.

The worse thing is speeding which is normalised.

The roads are just shit and full. When you go to a part of another country with same sort of traffic and narrow roads its becomes apparent Brits drive well.