Over half of drivers break 30mph limits

Additional than fifty percent of auto drivers crack 30mph speed boundaries, formal Federal government figures have exposed.

Freshly introduced Office for Transport statistics for 2019 demonstrate that drivers are most very likely to crack 30mph speed boundaries, with fifty four per cent of motorists undertaking so. On motorways, precisely fifty percent of drivers crack the speed limit, even though only nine per cent of drivers crack the 60mph barrier on one carriageway national speed limit roads.

The figures for last 12 months also demonstrate 12 per cent of drivers crack the speed limit on motorways by more than 10mph. Only six per cent did so on 30mph roads and the determine was just a single per cent on one carriageway national speed limit roads.

On motorways, forty nine per cent of van drivers broke the speed limit, even though fifty five per cent did so in 30mph zones. Meanwhile, 99 per cent of articulated lorries stuck to the limit on motorways – with speed limiters no doubt enjoying a element – but worryingly only 56 per cent of HGVs obeyed 30mph boundaries.

Exceeding the speed limit was a contributory element in 5.one per cent of highway visitors accidents in 2018, up from 4.eight per cent in 2017. The Office for Transport claims that compliance with speed boundaries has broadly remained steady since 2011.

RAC highway security spokesman Simon Williams known as the figures “alarming”, including: “We know that throughout the times of stringent lockdown there was a authentic prevalence of dashing in constructed-up regions. Breaking speed boundaries is illegal and puts everyone using the highway in hazard. It’s important the Government’s evaluate into highway policing addresses the elephant in the area – a absence of enforcement.”

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