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Letter: Letters: Dissimulation

Published 16 July 1994

From PETER BAKER

It is a deadly illusion of a different kind to believe that children
are killed on Britain’s roads because of an optical illusion. The reason
children are killed on our roads, particularly in residential areas of towns
and cities, is because car drivers drive too fast – 50 kilometres per hour
(otherwise 30 mph) is a ludicrous speed in narrow streets with parked cars
all around.

Peter Baker London

Issue no. 1934 published 16 July 1994

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