fred wrote

"Bridget Driscoll achieved notoriety by becoming the
first pedestrian to be killed in a car accident in the United
Kingdom. Whilst visiting the Crystal Palace in London on
17th August 1896, she was hit by an automobile which was
giving demonstration rides at a maximum speed of 4 mph. R.D."

Whats the point of these new 20mph city speed limits ?

Farkinell, we have 40KM/H speed limits past schools and
they are irritatingly slow but the school zones arent that large.

They obviously need to be about 3mph