Ministers are pushing on with plans to raise motorway speed limits to 80mph despite concerns that the carriageways are not safe enough to cope with the increase. The Government intends to consult on introducing the new limit in the next few months. But according to a report from the Road Safety Foundation (RSF), England’s motorways do not provide enough protection to drivers and car occupants for an increase in the limit to be considered. It added that there would be a rapidly-rising risk of shunt crashes from the sheer volume of traffic using the motorways. The report also said there were widespread faults in the protection given to drivers to prevent them running off the road on motorways. The RSF also cited the problem of pedestrians on the hard shoulder, roadworks, extreme weather and spillages from vehicles. In addition, there wou.....More