A RECENT correspondent complains that people who break the criminal law by speeding are "made to feel like criminals".
He further complains that when he 'experimented' (his word) by keeping to the speed limits he was overtaken by other law breakers and concludes that the speed limits must therefore be wrong.
Driving too fast is now recognised as the cause of many if not most road collisions ( these crashes are not 'accidents' because they arise from people breaking the criminal law).
On a two mile stretch of my local main road, the B4368 in the Corvedale, there have been four serious crashes in the last two months - total casualty figures three killed, five airlifted to hospital (four seriously and one less seriously injured).
The cost to the community of each fatal traffic collision is huge. The emotional and physical cost to many individuals is incalculable.
The behaviour of a driver who risks causing these consequences to so many other people by deliberately breaking the law as embodied in speed limits fully deserves the description 'criminal'.
Ian Hankinson
Munslow
Craven Arms
SY7 9HL
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