Achilles says:
Twenty is plenty, to be honest when we’re all in a hurry and get up to higher speeds we all just end up clogging the already congested roads around Newbury and slowing everything down anyway. The national situation is the same so I believe that by going slower we all end up actually going faster.
There are hundreds of children killed on our roads every year in the UK, normally the accident is down to not the speed of the car, but the speed of the drivers reactions. If we were all doing twenty, we would have consistency and everybody would develop more consistent skills.
Modern cars are also built with crumple zones and some modern cars (Kia’s, for example or anything French) are being made with thinner and thinner metal. A child being hit by one of these at twenty, means that a child will only suffer mild bruising because the rest of the car isn’t really involved. In the case of a Kia doing thirty, it has already started to rattle itself apart and the larger heavier bits are exposed, all at child head level. By doing twenty through speed bump, drivers will be more likely to keep in a straight line rather than weaving between the cushions. Little Susie and Jonny runaround are more likely to be able to run out and across the path of a car without it swerving into them to avoid a speed bump. Children are our future, but they’re also idiots when it comes to road safety, they look to us to protect them, let’s not let them down.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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