Four numbers, one habit, and the thing that actually kills people: arriving somewhere faster than you can stop.
The limits are ceilings, not targets
Sixty inside an urban area. A hundred outside one. A hundred and twenty on a freeway. A sign showing anything different always overrides the general limit.
Every one of those is a maximum for good conditions — dry road, clear visibility, a vehicle in good order. Driving at 120 in heavy rain is still an offence, because the limit was never a promise that the speed is safe.
Work it through
You are on a freeway in heavy rain. The limit is 120 and traffic around you is doing about 100.
Slow to a speed you can stop from in the distance you can see.
The offence is driving too fast for the conditions, and the limit is no defence. What the traffic around you is doing is not a defence either.
Where people lose the markTreating the limit as the speed you are supposed to travel at.
The rest of this lesson
- Heavier vehicles are capped lower
- Two seconds, and when two is not enough
- Increase it for five things
- Where you cannot see