And Belgium is also double UK.
On 9 May 2013 09:11, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Which in itself tells us nothing since you have to put the number of
> accidents in relation to km driven, which I suspect is much higher in
> France than in the UK--the populations are similar in size, but France is
> geographically larger, and also has lots of transit traffic (anybody
> travelling from Northern Europe to Spain or Portugal by car will invariably
> pass through France, for example).
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> Having said this, and having driven in virtually every Western European
> country, some in Eastern Europe, plus the US, I must say that British
> drivers are some of the most polite and civilised anywhere.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> On May 9, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
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> > France has double the fatalities that UK has.
> >
> >
> > On 9 May 2013 06:08, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes it does because otherwise they'll be lane hopping or getting
> impatient
> >> - both recipes for disaster. The nominal speed limit on a British
> motorway
> >> is 70mph but the fast lane always seems to be doing at least 80 and
> apart
> >> from peak hours close to large cities, it all seems to go smoothly too
> by
> >> our standards. You can get around the UK and France very quickly on the
> two
> >> and three lane motorways and arterial roads. The speed limit on the
> French
> >> autoroutes is 130kph (110 in rain) and the standard fast lane speed
> seems
> >> to be around 150. That's what I usually do while keeping in the middle
> lane
> >> and watching all the big black Audis and Mercs crusising past me. I
> don't
> >> know what the accident and fatality rates are there but I've never had a
> >> scare or seen a serious accident on the autoroutes.
> >> Here we have that imprecation "Keep left unless overtaking" which no-one
> >> seems to take any notice of. There you tend to keep out of the fast lane
> >> altogether unless you are passing.
> >> Of course, French city driving and parking is quite another matter! An
> >> entirely different skill set.
> >> Andrew Fildes
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> >>
> >> On 09/05/2013, at 12:17 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does it make sense to keep the fast lane free only for drivers who want
> >> to
> >>> exceed the speed limit ?
> >>>
> >>> If you use all lanes then you increase the traffic carrying capacity of
> >> the
> >>> road as long as you don't have all lanes occupied by drivers travelling
> >>> under the speed limit.
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