Ben Fogle Calls for 20MPH Speed Limit on Rural Roads After near Death Experience
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2024
- Adventurer Ben Fogle has put himself in some really dangerous situations around the world. But he says it was in rural Buckinghamshire that he actually nearly lost his life after almost being hit by a delivery van going 60mph on a single-track road. The adventure is now calling for slower speed limits on country roads, where the majority of road deaths in the UK occur.
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20mph would be insane on places with a lot of single track roads. For example on the Isle of Mull almost all roads are single track, to go from Tobermory to Fionnphort takes 90 minutes. Its only 50 miles. If you reduced those roads to 20mph you'd be looking at 4 hours...
Ben Fogle is entitled to his opinion but should carry on doing what he knows best, then keep his thoughts close to HIS chest.
Maybe law should also be changed enforcing delivery companies to plan routes on a 20 mph algorithm.
There is a law against inconsiderate driving (even when under the speed limit) which carries a penalty of a fine up to £5000 plus a driving ban. But it isn't easy to prosecute without a police witness. In truth, the national speed limit should never have been applied to narrow residential lanes without footpaths and the law should be amended. Some drivers will still exceed any speed limit of course.
difficult to police! people should just be sensible according to the conditions, we need to change the culture not pay for signs!
changing the culture of the entire population of the UK and all humans that visit the UK is much more expensive and more difficult to police than changing the speed limit on rural roads.
@@Vinny-Zenif there are no speed cameras who’s to know you’re driving 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60. Most country lanes people drive quickly when it’s not safe so it’s not going to change as they will drive unsafely after the signs change
@@pwners4u good idea, add speed cameras 📷
Nothing will change the culture this mad world has slipped into. Nothing. And it is only going to get a lot, lot worse.
It's common sense for that lane to be 20mph considering the lack of space. Any inaction by those with power to immediately rectify the situation should be treated as criminal negligence.
Here we go again!!! If you disagree we will criminalize you.
@brianwebb5921 you're allowed to disagree and make your case, I'm talking about people in power for example a doctor with the medicine to save a patients life but decides to do nothing after hearing concerns. Or a police man ignoring a womans concern about a stalker and does nothing then she dies the next day. This is the same thing and there should be criminal consequences for the person who didn't do their job therefore people died as a result.
Why 20 mph and not 25? Or 30? Seems common sense is subjective.
"our village, "our local council" ben sounds just like a NIMBY to me ...............
I believe he lives in Fawley but also owns a house in west London
I totally agree. Speed bumps will slow them down Delivery drivers should not be pressured to drive so fast/make deliveries and so rural one track roads without pavements should have either footpath alternatives made or speed limit changed. But what about horse riders?
Everyone has equal rights to use these roads.
My daughter yesterday refused to cycle on rural roads as she feels unsafe. I pushed on and did the ride and sure enough several idiots on the road whizzing close by me at speed on rural roads. Slow down people!! You wanna go to jail as a murderer?
When running with dog, listen out for a diesel van. When driving a diesel van, take a single track road slower....(not rocket science).
I have a good idea!!!! Why not have a person with a red flag in front of all vehicles!!! No deaths on the roads!!! Except, perhaps, red flag carriers!!!
Alan Partridge was right, the BBC should commission 'Dogs on Fogle'.
If you want to do 20 then do 20 but dont judge me when i overtake
Thank god i didn't have to watch his life passing in front of my eyes.
60MPH IS THE LIMIT, NOT A TARGET !
So then old people drive at 20 in a 50 which is more dangerous than going faster....
I completely agree with him!!
Ben is generous saying he doesn't blame the drivers and it is a clever point to make about pressure on drivers if the Dept of Transport is watching. But there is a moral point here. The driver by law has to drive with care and full control to meet any hazard. And there is the aspect of moral consideration too. Most of us, even if measured by an algorithm tracking us, would not be prepared to drive in the way some do. Where there are houses there are children. It is incredibly reckless to drive in that way.
Pedestrians also should not be walking care free down the middle of any road. The name "road" implies vehicular traffic.
If there were no cars, we would have no roads. They were built to handle cars.
Street lights would help on country lanes
Someone should tell him what’s it’s like to do a driving job for a living….Delivery drivers should just refuse to deliver anything to him
True that, and he should get a real job
How is it going to be enforced ?😂 😂😂😂
Speed mumps upon entry as a gentle reminder….
I don't understand why the roads in the UK are so narrow? It's not because of the lack of space...
DUR , maybe it`s because 100+ years ago they were little lanes for those "horse and cart" thingy`s 🙄🙄
It's also a small Island not equipped for 67m people 😮
@@t5jerry Do you really think horse and carts weren't as wide as cars, if not wider?
I'll bet Ben had headphones in and had no idea the van was approaching, but he won't want to band headphones for road users - which would be more sensible.
20mph is untenable. my car is screaming for 30mph - it's how gearboxes are calibrated.
Ridiculous comment that your car does not function well at 20mph.
Maybe don’t buy a house in an area you don’t like. The world is full of snow flakes now. That road was 60mph before he lived there.. lol
Too many restrictions so when you can do 40 or 60 you want to do that speed. Especially if you have a powerful car. The roads are too congested and slow drivers in a 60 zone is just as dangerous as a speeding driver. You get other cars overtaking the slow drivers.
Maybe they should install a pavement if its a country road that is a main walking route for the village.
Its not a pavement so pedestrians should make sure they are sticking to the sides of road IF they have to walk the road or use a safer route.
Why shoud people have to drive at 20mph just in case ben fogle decides to walk down a narrow country road as if its not a road.
The road is not a pavement so stop calling it a pavement. Its a country road so cars have priority. You choose to live in the counrtysode so should be aware that it may nkt be practical to walk everywjere due to lack of pavements
A possible solution would be that roads with a carriageway less than a certain width were automatically limited to 20.
I love people who call themselves celebrities - I had to google the name as I have never heard of him
Just because you’ve never heard of someone doesn’t not make them a celebrity 😂 it just means you don’t know who they are.
@@malicahamilton Fair point. What is your definition of a celebrity please?
@@martinrdg Hmmm a well known public figure I suppose
Malica works as his PR apparently
@@jakehowie442 Funny … not 🙄
ban all cars on rural roads
Fed up of people who walk down roads like this with no awareness of traffic. I tried to pass a cyclist on a single track road for over 2 miles because he was oblivious to me being there, peddling away with his music in his ears. People need to learn the roads have cars on them and that they are "higher on the food chain" so to speak. If we didn't have cars, we wouldn't have roads. So stop complaining and be more self aware instead of self righteous.
20mph is so slow. My pavement lol 😂 what a load of 💩 the speed limit is totally fine.
Ben FAGle should move back to London, where the speed limit is already 20mph. The countryside is the only free place left in Britain.
Usually roads are safe, if you not riding a horse down them 🤔
Everyone has equal right to use the roads, even people on horseback. They should have speed bumps on the narrow roads upon entry as a gentle reminder to slow down.
No they shouldn’t Julie please move to Socialist London or Manchester for that
I think also your car should tell you it should be in every car we can do it by satellite just an idea
Me
shill
How is he an shill when he nearly died by getting run over by a van outside his home? It makes sense to slow down the speed limit on roads like this.
If we could just have 15 minute cities everywhere there would be no need for cars so the danger would be eradicated.
@@gunnyo50 thats what he says hes shill becouse the globalisdt want us not driving anywere so start by making people drive at 2o mph like in wales imagain goin from burnley to swansea through wale at 20 miles and hour its gonna take 12 hours so you might not go and maybe stay in a 15 minute area to were you live while they fly 1000 privete jets to davos to decide how to lock the plebs down
You really think all the migrants doing delivery jobs these days who came into the country illegally and know nothing about the country are going to drive 20 MPH?
So he didn't die though, just a drama king.
what a wimp