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South Africa should lower specific speed limits

Lowering speed limits in built-up areas from 60km/h to 50km/h may make sense and impact road fatalities, but no evidence shows that reducing South Africa’s 100km/h and 120km/h limits will help reduce road deaths.

This is according to Driving.co.za managing director, Rob Handfield-Jones, who highlighted that Australia increased speed limits on its highest-speed roads and hasn’t observed an increase in fatalities.

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