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Originally Posted by Red Herring
Speed enforcement is dealing with the symptom, not the cause and it makes pretty much no difference whatsoever to road safety, not in the big picture.
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The only difference is in the physics of velocity and energy involved:
Kinetic energy = 0.5 x mass x velocity(squared)
So a vehicle travelling at 20mph has less than half the energy of the same at 30mph, and it increases exponentially. Every extra mph adds a disproportionate amount of kinetic energy (and shiz factor if it all goes wrong).
Though I suppose your point was that a vehicle driven at high speed is generally being done so by someone who is also driving it like an eejit!
