I saw on the television that in Germany there may be speed limits set on the Autobahn. What are the accident rates like with no speed limit compared to the motorway limits in the UK. Are there more or less?
2007-03-17 05:10:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
As someone said about legislating against stupidity...
In Germany, lane discipline is so good, the UK looks like India... People happily do 120+ past cars doing 60 and no-one should worry because they all know their place. Lorries are kept to the slow lane on up-hill streches, etc.
In the UK, we have idiots doing 60 in the fast lane with a clear slow and middle lane. I don't know what these people are trying to achieve, but they should have huge neons on the back of their cars saying "D*CK" in bright red...
Also, common sense has a place over there. Only straight areas of motorway have no limit. Slip roads, bends and the like have a limit of 70 or so... We have so much to learn from Germany...
2007-03-17 11:58:33 · answer #1 · answered by Mr-Watts 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The UK has the safest roads In Europe,also safer than US and Australia. Guess speed limits have a use then.The German autobahn is 7th worst.
Motorways — Deaths per billion vehicle-km.
Portugal 14.1
Italy 12.8
Austria 8.9
Belgium 7.2
France 5.4
Finland 5.0
Germany 4.5
Denmark 4.3
Ireland 4.0
Switzerland 3.3
Netherlands 3.3
Sweden 3.2
United Kingdom 2.0
2007-03-17 17:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by keeprockin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The safest road to drive on in the U.K. is a motorway (according to the government's safety statistics). Motorways also have the highest average speed.
Even with no enforced speed limits, the German autobahns are some of the safest roads in the world.
Speed doesn't kill - stupidity does. And you can't legislate against stupidity...
2007-03-17 14:08:05 · answer #3 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Germans are introducing speed limits because the accident rates on Autobahns, especially at night, are so high compared to motorways in other EU countries.
2007-03-18 12:20:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
There's apparently no correlation between speed limits and accident rates. (Other things are more important.) A graph at the first link below (scroll down to see the graph) shows the speed limits and accident rates for Germany, the UK, and other countries.
The 2nd link below says the USA has lower speed limits than the UK, but higher accident rates --supporting the point that accident rates depend on other things than speed limits.
2007-03-17 12:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they tend to be less as most people are careful when they travel at those speeds. On the other hand, when an accident happens it gets very big, very quickly(no pun intended)
Here is a graph of deaths related to speeds. They found no relationship, meaning deaths are more likely related to road conditions and driver errors.
2007-03-17 12:24:38 · answer #6 · answered by Old guy 124 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Couldn't tell you about UK, but the autobahn is MUCH safer to drive on than the united states highways
2007-03-17 12:15:31 · answer #7 · answered by wulfgar_117 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Autobahns rock!....Served in Germany in the late 80's...took my Kawasaki 900 Ninja out for a spin....took it up to 145mph & shat in my Alan's!
2007-03-18 06:36:24 · answer #8 · answered by Alan R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've driven in Germany and I've got to say I've seen less accidents there than here.
2007-03-17 17:37:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the accident rate would be considerably less, go as fast as you want, I say!
2007-03-17 12:16:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋