A
motoring organisation has said a Nottinghamshire village which has eight
different speed limits in just over a mile of road may be confusing drivers.
The village of Zouch, on the
Nottinghamshire-Leicestershire border, has seven different limits between
itself and the next village of Hathern.
A further speed limit lies in the
opposite direction on the A6 towards Kegworth.
The county council said it had
imposed the limits for safety reasons.
Whatever the council’s intentions
may have been, clearly they have gone way too far to the point where,
ironically, they’ve, in my view, actually made the road much more dangerous.
I imagine now if you drive on that
road you’d need to be an octopus because your feet would be constantly switching
from one pedal to the other, you’d be changing gear every five seconds, your
head would be bobbing up and down like the Churchill dog checking what speed it
says on the road sign and what speed you’re actually doing.
As well as the motorists spare a
thought for the traffic cops who sit by the road and record what speeds people
are doing, imagine being a traffic cop on this road you’re sitting there a car
goes past your speed gun says that car was doing 40mph, what do you do? Are
they going too slow, too fast, or where they going the right speed, how would
you know.
I’m not sure how long these signs have
been there but I am sure that the situation has got a little out of control and
most of them should be taken down to make the road safer.
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