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Group slams rural speed limit plans
Mar 10 2009Car Finance customers may agree with the suggestions of motoring group the Association of British Drivers (ABD) that plans to cut rural speed limits are unnecessary.
The organisation has responded to government plans to reduce the speed limit of all rural single carriageways to 50 miles per hour, in a move that it feels will signal an end to the UK's driving excellence.
According to the organisation, such a measure fails to take into account how roads vary.
The ABD's Nigel Humphries commented that the plans had "nothing to do with road safety", adding: "Anyone can see that hazards vary along rural roads and so speeds must vary with them."
Additionally, the rules would be enforced through monitoring motorists' driving, which the ABD suggests would contribute to a "surveillance society".
The organisation previously said that the government was using misleading figures to "underpin the war on drivers" by suggesting that intelligent speed adaptation could cut injury numbers from accidents.
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