speed limits Will need to cut 10mph on some streets to prevent deaths And life -changing injuries, a study published by the Road Safety Foundation has suggested.
The report states that reducing Speed ​​limit on roads In the surrounding schools, hospitals and major events, such as concerts or football matches can reduce accidents.
Dan said that A 10mph speed limit Less than 10 will mean road accidents The result will be killed or seriously injured.
However, the Road Safety Foundation has not recommended what speed limitations would be appropriate, it highlighted that the deaths would reduce at a low speed.
It added to those places PedestriansMotorcycle drivers and cyclists are mixed with cars, the 20mph speed range makes it safe.
The speed limit of 30mph will only be suitable where there are not Pedestrians Or cyclists, and head-on collisions and side effects are possible only between cars, it was added.
In a comment after the report, the charity explained that these “safe speeds” are very few, possibly less than most physicians and policy makers, can be understood first “.
The report concludes: “Priority to speed management will reduce the deadly and serious injuries to the road systems to achieve vision zero goals.
“Any decrease in operating speed towards ‘safe’ speed will have a meaningful impact on road safety.”
The vision zero is the ambition of charity to eliminate the deaths on the road and serious injuries, which “is based on the moral condition that no death or serious injury should be considered an acceptable by-product of mobility”.
It comes after changing each road by the Welsh government with 30mph Border up to 20mph, Until it was exempted by the local authority.
This was made the default speed range in September 2023, but about two-thirds of people in Wales objected to the change, according to Yougov.
Since it was implemented, more than 100,000 Drivers The new speed limit is caught breaking. Road safety partnership data showed that 112,699 offenses were committed by March 2025.
The highest speed recorded was 89mph in North Wales in January 2025, with several cases of 88MPH across the country.
But the average speed recorded was about 28mph.
In some urban areas, the Welsh government returned 30mph changes after protests against change.
