Re: 120 MPH?????

["Jim Haseltine" <Jim@ur-q.freeserve.co.uk>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Payne <quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk>

>"Speed kills" is the simplistic message.  Irrespective of where, when
>and local conditions, we are all to be held rigidly to arbitrary
>speed limits.  The victims are actually not the motorists, but the
>police - who are required to stand in front of sober and sensible
>members of the community at the roadside and tell them that 65mph
>on a dead straight road miles from the nearest town (or even turning)
>is irresponsible and almost a capital offence.


The message is being interpreted by alot of people as advice to drive at
speeds well _below_ the speed limit and to never under any circumstances
approach it. I reckon that this is why everyday I come across at least one
example of a driver passing a 50mph truck at 55mph - on a near empty 70mph
dual carriageway.


Jim Haseltine