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General Speed Limit Useless

25th October 1957
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

nELEGATES were given the oppor

tunity of putting questions to a panel of experts at the Road Safety Parliament, under the chairmanship of Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.

A complex question was put by Mr. J. Dempsey (Lanark), who asked for the panel's views on (1) having a variable upper speed limit on main roads; (2) abolishing the speed limit; (3) applying the term " careless" to drivers who crossed the white line; and (4) setting up traffic courts.

Mr. Haselgrove, as always, answered cogently and frankly, and maintained that a general speed limit for all roads would probably be too high to be of value, or too low to be satisfactorily enforced. Concerning careless driving,

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he said the police had power to deal with this under the present regulations.

Two other members of the panel, Mr. R. Lloyd-Thomas, of the Home Office, and Mr. A. J. Hanhart, of the standing joint committee of the R.A.C., A.A. and R.S.A.C., were against special courts.

Major F. W. Cook (Bournemouth) suggested that the society should consider the possibility of obtaining a mobile exhibition unit to tour the country.

Brig. R. F. E. Stoney, deputy directorgeneral of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, replied that the public-spirited sponsoring of a permanent exhibition would be of assistance and the suggestion would be considered.


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