Ok, I'll add some conditions similar to what I experienced yesterday.
I had to drive the same stretch of road 7 times, so 14 trips up and back in a 3 tonne Isuzu truck loaded to its capacity one way, empty the other.
The truck could do the posted speed limit which was 90km/h with no problems (besides being slow getting there).
The conditions are clear, the sun is high in the sky the stretch of road is single lane which has a distance of about 20km.
There aren't many overtaking opportunities due to having consistent traffic in both directions and several long sweeping corners.
So, out of my 14 trips I counted 11 instances where I had to slow down because someone couldn't manage the speed limit for whatever reason.
The cars going slow were all less than 10 years old except 1, which was an older, larger truck. We can let that one off I guess.
So now that we have some sort of an idea of conditions.
In this specific case, does going slower make it safer?
IMHO It creates more situations for an accident occurring.
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Last edited by DoreSlamR; 24-12-2008 at 02:39 PM.
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