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Tory peer against more speed limiters

19th February 2004
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Page 8, 19th February 2004 — Tory peer against more speed limiters
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GOVERNMENT plans to introduce speed limiters for all vehicles over 3.5 tonnes are unlikely to improve road safety, warns Tory peer Lord Attlee. He says limiters on light vehicles will cause unnecessary congestion and will frustrate other drivers, some of whom will be tempted into reck less manoeuvres to get past slower vehicles. "Few accidents occur on motorways, and the majority that do are on the hard shoulder so I am not sure how reducing the speed limit for vans will improve road safety," Attlee adds.

-There are other more

beneficial ways of reducing accidents, such as continued driver training for truck drivers and further compulsory driver training for car drivers who commit offences."

But Lord Davies of Oldham, the government's transport spokesman in the House of Lords, says HGV speed limits are designed to allow free movement of traffic and sensible speeds without compromising road safety Davies argues that the only areas where problems may arise are on gradients or busy stretches of motorway. In those areas crawler and additional lanes are generally present to alleviate potential problems caused by slow vehicles, he says.

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Organisations: House of Lords
People: Oldham

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