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It’s not just the police who follow the speed on Norwegian roads. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has several tally points showing speed development here.
And it’s actually going in a positive direction.
In 2006, 45.6 percent of all cars kept speed limits. Today, the corresponding figure is 62.1 percent. And during this period, the death toll has dropped, from 242 to 108.
– There is a direct connection between the speed level on Norwegian roads and the number of serious accidents. In recent years, more and more of us have gotten better at speed limit enforcement. We can read this directly from the accident statistics, with fewer and fewer fatalities and serious injuries. Relative to population, we now have the lowest number of road traffic fatalities in the world, says Guro Ranes, department director of the Department of Road Safety at the Norwegian Public Highway Administration.
Could have saved 24 lives
Four out of ten fatal traffic accidents are related to speed. In a new campaign, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration now shows the great risk of being “a little further behind”, and also how much safer it has become on the roads because most are now keeping the speed limit.
– Today there are more than 6 out of 10 of us who keep the speed limit. If everyone had always kept the speed limit in 2019, we would have saved around 24 lives and had 85 fewer seriously injured, Ranes says in a press release.
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“A little more” is the name of the new campaign by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. The goal is to get more people to stay within the speed limits. Photo: NTB
Think that most drive too fast
A large proportion of accidents occur at a speed that is only slightly above the speed limit or too fast for the conditions. The problem isn’t just rough driving, something many people may think of.
A nationally representative survey, conducted by the Department of Transportation Economics, shows that the majority of people stay within the speed limits, but we believe that the majority drive too fast and do not comply with the limits. Only one in ten believes that “other drivers” (those we don’t know) will comply with the speed limit the next time they drive where there is a speed limit of 80.
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The article was first published by broom.no.
