Thread: speed limits
View Single Post
  #10   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
ARW ARW is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 10,161
Default speed limits

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 ? They obviously
need to be about 3mph


Death by rail was much earlier.

William Huskisson

--
Adam