Educate, don't legislate!

[Lazarus]

The biggest factor they appear to ignore is drivers not driving relative to the road conditions/ weather, etc but you can't legislate for lack of common sense.  A 70mph limit on motorways doesn't mean 70mph in snow, thick fog or bad visibility, but still you see it happening.  As I said above the government tend to address road safety purely in terms of speed limits which has the additional (purely coincidental I'm sure ) bonus of filling the coffers with speeding fines. 


Education is definitely preferable, the government's chosen option is to punish all for the failings of the few (again).

Agree with that - number of muppets I see driving OVER the speedlimit regardless of the conditions is mind blowing.


However, and im sure everyone has experienced this, how about the f**kwits who drive too SLOW for the conditions?


i used to drop kids off a school before heading to work and often got stuck behind someone doing 30mph regardless of the road conditions (in a 60 zone)


as well as the numpties who join a motorway ~40mph and immediately move to the middle lane.


for me - some of these scenarios cause irritation and unnecessary overtake manouvers.


sometimes the "Darwin" principle needs to be applied. folk who are too daft to drive remove themselves from the gene pool.