Speed Limits

The absurd view that all we need to do is to reduce speed limits and then road deaths will fall is missing the point. Accidents are primarily caused by bad driving, speed in itself is not the issue. Every day I see examples of people driving carelessly and badly. You see people in front of you coming up to a roundabout, they stop and then look to see if anything is coming, why don't they look before they get to the roundabout, if nothing is coming then they can feed into the roundabout and keep the traffic flowing. Another annoyance are people who join a main road from a slip road, often they do not get up to speed and rather than filter into the traffic, thay just indicate as if they have a god given right to join my lane, forcing me to take avoiding action. Bad driving, poor anticipation and a lack of car control are all more important issues than speed. Why not revert to a man with a red flag walking in front of a car - that would stop deaths, well apart from men carrying red flags that is.