dennis@home wrote:
"John Rumm" wrote in message
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dennis@home wrote:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/85-mph/?
What's the significance of 85 mph?
1.5 x the energy if you crash?
1.5 x the stopping distance at 70 mph?
Same energy, since that is the speed the bulk of the traffic is moving at
now anyway.

No it isn't.
Most of it is below 70.



Not on the planet I live on.

There are three basic bands..the 56mph artics and the like, the sub
70mph 'legals - usually doing 65mph who cause enormous tailbacks when
the overtake the 56mph lot at 59mph..and the 'sod this for a lark' third
who do whatever speed the conditions allow, or they feel like.

I vary between all three myself according to mood and urgency.