Most of a vehicle's speed is lost in the last few metres. Even the best drivers in the best vehicles have crashes. The environment is unpredictable other drivers, children, animals, cyclists and road conditions can all play a part. In fact, the vast majority of pedestrian crashes are unavoidable. That's 77 per year.
Local roads are the smaller roads that carry neighborhood traffic, or give direct property access.
They are often the roads between our home and the local deli, or our home and the local primary school. Western Australia has one of the highest local road speed limits in the world. Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand and the USA have all dropped their local road limit. Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand and the USA all spend more than Western Australia per person on road safety education, and make a point of consulting with motorists rather than treating them like naughty children. It will have little or no impact on travel time or travel routines.