Could past accident victims have a claim against HMG?
Discussion
Sorry if this has been done to death, and feel free to castigate if so, but I was just wondering...
The speed limits seem to have been in place and unchanged for years if not decades. All the speeding tickets and other penalties dished out are on the basis that the offenders have driven beyond safe limits.
Today's cars are vastly safer than the cars of the past.
Doesn't that mean there is an inherent implication that, if we must accept that speed limits are currently appropriate, then historically they were set too low?
If that is the case then any victim of an accident where speed contributed to either the cause or the severity of the accident, yet vehicles were within the speed limits, that the authority in charge of setting those limits must bear responsibility for those injuries that occurred or were worsened by the difference in speed between what the limit was, and what it should have been.
Again, apologies if this is inappropriate, not allowed, duplication etc. I joined to discuss it and find out more. I'm not 100% on the rules and regs here.
The speed limits seem to have been in place and unchanged for years if not decades. All the speeding tickets and other penalties dished out are on the basis that the offenders have driven beyond safe limits.
Today's cars are vastly safer than the cars of the past.
Doesn't that mean there is an inherent implication that, if we must accept that speed limits are currently appropriate, then historically they were set too low?
If that is the case then any victim of an accident where speed contributed to either the cause or the severity of the accident, yet vehicles were within the speed limits, that the authority in charge of setting those limits must bear responsibility for those injuries that occurred or were worsened by the difference in speed between what the limit was, and what it should have been.
Again, apologies if this is inappropriate, not allowed, duplication etc. I joined to discuss it and find out more. I'm not 100% on the rules and regs here.
Scubdup said:
All the speeding tickets and other penalties dished out are on the basis that the offenders have driven beyond safe limits.
And that's your mistake, just there.Speed limits are legal limits, not safe limits. If they were safe limits, then TPTB would have to effectively guarantee that 60mph is safe and appropriate on every single bit of NSL road. Even the ones with grass growing up the middle and shrubbery twanging both mirrors simultaneously. Even in the pissing wet or thick fog or snow. Clearly, that isn't the case.
t appeasement.Scubdup said:
TooMany2cvs said:
It's an upper bound on what a driver can legally decide is a safe and appropriate speed.
It's really not a very hard concept to understand.
The car's speed limit does that. Why have two?It's really not a very hard concept to understand.
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