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Road Safety Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support the amendment, too. We have talked about it many times in your Lordships’ House. It is no big deal to slow down to 30 mph in a village; I do not know why people get so upset about it, because it ought to be the normal thing to do under the definition in the amendment. I was interested in the noble Baroness’s estimate that it would cost £6,000 a village. It is interesting to compare that with the Government’s figure for the cost of a fatality, which is about £1.25 million. The cost that I was given in a Written Answer last year of the costs of death and delay on the A34, that wonderful dual carriageway that goes past Oxford, was about £300 million. We are not talking about spending big money here; if the proposal saves a few lives—and prevents not just deaths but injuries as well—it deserves every support.