If everyone travels at the same speed and leaves a safe gap then the likelihood of a collision is lowered. Common sense will tell you that much.
Recognition of one of the many circumstances I refer to at last.
Just look at the middle lane of a motorway. If you get a ****** jumping in and out of the middle lane so they can speed - then you get a problem.
If you get a ****** jumping in and out of the middle lane at 70mph or less you get a potentially fatal problem, and that is not speeding. So what's your point?
If you drive carefully and with consideration for others you are less likely to get a problem. Here a quick list off the top of my head of the bad elements: -
Driver has had a drink, (or too much drink and/or drugs). Combine that with youth and I'd rather stay at home when they are on the road.
Driver has poor eyesight or is carrying an illness or injury from an operation etc. (There is no MOT for drivers).
The car has a bald tyre or more. (Tyres not correctly inflated).
It’s raining, snowing, dark, going down a steep hill, people and erratic children are present, there’s parked cars, there’s a junction or driveway ahead etc. etc.
The driver is distracted by fiddling with something in the car or distracted by people and events in the car. A report in MCN some time ago found this can be anything up to 7 seconds! (I've seen drivers like that on motorways, wandering across the road and even touching the curb while texting or talking). But even if it's just one second you have lost a distance such that it will make the difference between life and death, just as going too fast for the conditions will.
I could list more, but I wont.
How does a speed camera help address all these points? Ans: It doesn't. Speed is just one element in a gamut of road usage and abusage yet the one and only thing you focus on is speed and to hell with the rest. You haven’t mentioned any of the other things which are so vitally important or acquiesce that they are equally as important as speed.
I'm not trying to fall out with you over this Joe and like I have said I am truly sorry and saddened for
anyone who has lost someone to a RTA or been dealt a life sentence. But if the best you can do is keep throwing speed kills back at me and ignore the efforts and reasoning behind my posts I'm happy to call it stalemate and anyone who hasn't got bored with this yet can make their own minds up.
TBH you are coming across with such an irrational and, at times, obtuse argument I don’t know if you are not just a wind up merchant, so don’t be surprised if I don’t get back to you on this one again.
Take care and drive safely. I wouldn't want to see you, or anyone else here, as a patient...