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).
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.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On May 9, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> 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
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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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