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Old July 19th 04, 07:41 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling,uk.transport,uk.transport.london
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Default Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong

Michael Hoffman wrote in message news:Pine.WNT.4.58.0407190031400.1288@ZVAVZBB...
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Paul Weaver wrote:

As we have one of the lowest fatality rates in the world it wouldn't
surprise me if Germany was higher. What if you compare Germany accident
rates to Italy or France though


There's some 2002 data he

http://www.bast.de/htdocs/fachthemen...glish/we2.html


Motorway is about 33% higher then the UK, yet lower then France,
Finland, Beligum, Ireland, Japan, etc. - which all have speed limits
not far removed from ours (typically 120kph or 75mph)