Originally Posted by
emma dog
While I acknowledge faster impact means more damage and injuries, I don't perceive the frequency of these events to warrant this degree of restraint.
This is the crux of the debate. Whilst the relative risk is increased with higher speeds the absolute risk remains tiny. I have driven a 7 figure number of miles in the UK without a single collision. Most of those miles before these ridiculous 20 limits started springing up everywhere.
I will take the (mostly) common sense approach in the USA over the overbearing nanny states in Europe any day.