07/18/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/18/2024 02:35
Vehicle speed compliance statistics on free-flowing roads in Great Britain.
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These statistics provide insight into speeds at which drivers choose to travel and their compliance with speed limits under free flow conditions but should not be taken as estimates of actual compliance or actual average speed across the wider road network.
These statistics are based on speed data from a sample of the Department for Transport's Automatic Traffic Counters (ATCs), chosen to exclude locations where external factors might restrict driver behaviour (for example, junctions, hills, sharp bends and speed cameras).
In general, over the longer term there has been a slow decrease in the percentage of vehicles exceeding the speed limit on 30 miles per hour (mph) roads and relatively little change on motorways. This is based on a comparison of the average for the 5 years from 2011 to 2015 with the average for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023 (the latest available 5 years excluding 2020 and 2021).
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