The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has welcomed the government’s consultation on 20mph speed limits, but stressed that better driving standards among car insurance policyholders are also important for road safety.
Neil Greig, director of policy and research at the IAM, said that most accidents are caused by car insurance policyholders making mistakes.
“It would be naive to assume a speed limit reduction alone will totally remove all deaths and injuries from our roads,” he commented.
He added that better driving standards and road awareness among car insurance policyholders, combined with improvements in road engineering, would make the “most sustainable differences”.
Nevertheless, the IAM said it supported the plans to give councils flexibility to introduce their own measures to address local problems.
Road safety minister Paul Clark announced the proposals yesterday (December 16th), which would allow local authorities to put a 20mph limit in place without the need for traffic calming measures such as speed humps.
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