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Road Safety Bill [HL]

Amendment No. 78 states:"““There shall be a national speed limit of 30 mph for villages””." That is as far as I intend to speak on the amendment, but it might raise the temperature slightly if I recount the experience of friends in whose village, where the road had a white line along the centre, the national speed limit of 60 mph was reduced to 30 mph. One day, the lady of the house was gardening outside and saw someone ignoring the 30 mph limit, so she put up three fingers. The driver obviously disagreed and thought that the limit should have been 20 mph, because he stuck up two fingers.