Trecastle Traffic Speed Campaign - C.A.R.S.

PREFACE

Community Council Member Mr David Howells has been in discussions with Roger Williams MP, Kirsty Williams AM/AC and Mr Christopher Salmon Police and Crime Commissioner Dyfed-Powys regarding the speed of traffic through our area.

SOME FACTS

The DfT 2009 Speed Survey showed that:

• On 30 mph roads, 46% of car drivers exceed 30 mph and 16% exceed 35 mph
• On 40 mph roads, one quarter (22%) of car drivers speed, and 8% go faster than 45 mph
• Multiple studies have shown that pedestrians are more likely to be severely or fatally injured in when hit by cars at higher speeds, and particularly when the car is travelling more than 30 mph.
• The risk of a pedestrian who is hit by a car being killed increases slowly until impact speeds of around 30 mph. Above this speed, the risk increases rapidly, so that a pedestrian who is hit by a car travelling at between 30 mph and 40 mph is between 3.5 and 5.5 times more likely to be killed than if hit by a car travelling at below 30 mph.

Source: Department for Transport - Statistics as DFT.  Publication under the Open Government Licence v2.0.

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