Re: Speeding often not the issue
I agree. It is inappropriate speed that is the problem.
I lived in Montana USA and for many years the speed limit on the highways was "reasonable and prudent". I had a Mercedes sports car (with high speed tires) and generally drove at about 105 to 120 MPH. I would on occasion get passed by cars going faster. I never saw accidents on the highway (outside of winter) in all of the years I lived there (20 years), note, I said on the highways. For those of you saying I was lucky a highway patrol didn't see me, they did often, and never even flashed their lights at me. I could add that I have not received a speeding ticket or warning in 50 years. Wyoming did have speed limits but never enforced them on the highways, weather sometimes got those that did not understand inappropriate speed in a damn pickup truck (snow, ice, wind).
On the other hand, in town the 'natural' speed limit may be much slower than the posted 25 MPH speed limit. I have also been passed in residential areas, with a 25 MPH limit, which I felt was too fast due to the conditions (parked cars, kids playing, dogs, etc).
Probably none of this is applicable to most of Europe, but I wanted to agree the "Speeding is often not an issue comments". You can kill a person or an animal driving at 5 MPH if you are not paying attention.
And now for something completely different, the American actor Robert Redford got a speeding ticket in Montana while he was filming a movie (Horse Whisperer ?). He argued there was no speed limit. The officer said there is "reasonable and prudent", and 100 MPH in a pickup truck on a gravel road is neither.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
