{"id":58234,"date":"2023-12-08T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T09:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/from-the-archive\/70mph-limit-imposed-uk-motorways"},"modified":"2023-12-08T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T09:01:46","slug":"on-this-week-in-1965-70mph-limit-imposed-on-uk-motorways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/on-this-week-in-1965-70mph-limit-imposed-on-uk-motorways\/","title":{"rendered":"On this week in 1965: 70mph limit imposed on UK motorways"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Transport minister Tom Fraser introduced the limit for a trial period<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We take a look at the voices for and against an issue that remains contentious to this day<\/p>\n

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\u201cSince long before Britain\u2019s first motorway opened in 1958, pleas for an upper speed limit on them have been heard with depressing regularity,\u201d we sighed 58 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow the matter has come up again, and this time it\u2019s [government body] the National Road Safety Council which has reportedly proposed a limit of between 50mph and 70mph after dark.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite how this has arisen from a series of disastrous concertina accidents [on the M6] when drivers were hampered by fog is difficult to understand,\u201d we continued.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the local chief constable had admitted on television that the speeds involved hadn\u2019t been high \u2013 less than 30mph, in fact.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs regular users of British motorways know, there\u2019s no need for a limit,\u201d we asserted, citing drivers bunching up and staring at their speedometers too much as negative potential consequences.<\/p>\n

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We were obviously horrified, then, when Labour\u2019s transport minister, Tom Fraser, \u201cjumped in with both feet\u201d and imposed a general speed limit of 70mph and a 30mph one in foggy conditions on a four-month trial basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy has this been done?\u201d we asked. \u201cOne answer is that no one knows for certain, after years of talk and experiment, whether such a limit will reduce the number or severity of accidents. This [trial] may produce some valuable information.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother answer may be that a government whose main claim to fame in the transport field so far has been to add 6d a gallon on petrol and slow down road building felt compelled to make some dramatic move or other.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout doubt, too, quite a large and sincere section of the public with little or no experience of driving and no appreciation of the long-term effects will applaud this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those effects, we foresaw, would include the multiplication of \u201cthat extraordinary individual who likes to cruise in the outer lane at 60mph and utterly refuses to make way for faster traffic, even when he has nothing to overtake\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond these first few months, it\u2019s easy to see that the restriction would soon fall into contempt,\u201d we added. \u201cIt would be a pity if we returned to the days when the motoring law on speed was openly flouted by all.\u201d Yeah, about that\u2026<\/p>\n

We weren\u2019t the only ones who were annoyed and pessimistic. \u201cThis is a defeatist policy. I\u2019m convinced it will have no beneficial effect,\u201d scoffed the Conservatives\u2019 shadow transport minister, Sir Martin Redmayne.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe remain unconvinced on the inconclusive evidence that [it] will achieve any worthwhile road safety improvement,\u201d said the AA.<\/p>\n

\u201cLimits haven\u2019t done much good in America, where 47,500 were killed in the last year on the roads \u2013 more than in the whole [three years of] the Korean war,\u201d noted IAM test director George Eyles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must try to increase safety by education, effective warning signs, police control etc and not rely on the simple expedient of controlling speed,\u201d posited Jaguar boss Sir William Lyons.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

At the end of the trial, Fraser\u2019s successor, Barbara Castle (who couldn\u2019t drive), unexpectedly announced that it would be extended for two months to give the Road Research Laboratory time to compile and analyse the figures.<\/p>\n

Something smelled fishy to us\u2026 perhaps something the statisticians were trying to cook? Alarmingly, Castle extended the trial period for another 15 months, as \u201cthe case was not proven\u201d.<\/p>\n

When the lab did eventually release its findings in July 1967, RAC executive vice-chairman Lord Chesham summed it up by saying: \u201cNever have so many statistics been compared with so many variable yardsticks. There are enough red herrings in this report to fill the hold of the largest Grimsby trawler afloat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one telling extract: \u201cThe numbers killed or seriously injured as a proportion of the total casualties [on the M1] varied between 38% and 57% between 1960 and 1965, and the value during the trial period (53%) fell within this range.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few days later, Castle said the limit would be made permanent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Transport minister Tom Fraser introduced the limit for a trial period<\/p>\n

We take a look at the voices for and against an issue that remains contentious to this day<\/p>\n

\u201cSince long before Britain\u2019s first motorway opened in 1958, pleas for an upper speed 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