Conservative run Surrey County Council has rejected plans to slow traffic in Horsell Village. Former Lib Dem County Councillor John Doran had persuauded the Council to include plans for a 20mph limit through the village and around local schools. This plan has now been deemed 'too costly' and dropped so far down the County's list of schemes it is not likely to happen in the foreseeable future.
Evidence shows that a pedestrian struck by a vehicle driving at 20mph is likely to suffer slight injuries. At 30mph a pedestrian is more likely to be severely hurt and if hit by a vehice driving at 40mph or more a pedestrian is likely to be killed.
Lib Dem run Portsmouth has shown that all is needed for such a 20mph scheme is to erect 20mph signs. This has been done in Portsmouth and they now have evidence of reduced accident rates.
The sad thing is that Surrey now has a policy to support 20mph zones, having shown little interest in the past. What a pity they can't put their own policies into practice.
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