Following up to The Reid

I don't think so. Enforcing 30mph should be a big step - apparently a
pedestrian stands twice as much chance of surviving a 30mph crash than a
40mph crash IIRC.

even better don't hit as many or do so very slowly because you
slowed where you couldn't see. Nobody does this or encourages it.

also (picking up your 30 point)
It might be a good idea to move all the speed enforcement away
from 70 limit roads to 30 ones and instead of having speed
cameras on wide roads where people tend to ignore speed limits
concentrate them on 30 and 20 roads that are a pedestrian
accident risk
I think a government initiative that went "OK, lets drop the
ignored 70 Mway limit and let people get on with journeys but
lets give up some of the time saved by driving slowly where there
are people, putting a speed camera outside every school and in
every shopping road and a 30 limit through every village, (they
wont make money of course as only the small % of people speed in
those places, but it will save lives without slowing journeys or
making driving a pain in the butt, I would have thought)
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