Privacy

4382 readers

101 users here now

A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy

Rules:

Be civil
No spam posting
Keep posts on-topic
No trolling

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

iopq

Welsh mum forced to prove not all roads in Wales 20mph after son's car insurance voided [because of insurance tracking device reporting speeding] (www.walesonline.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by grue to c/privacy

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7804374

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/13854229

A mum had to take action to prove not every road in Wales has a 20mph speed limit after an insurance firm voided her son's insurance policy.

Welsh television presenter Jess Davies explained that her younger brother saw his car insurance voided as a result of the vehicle's black box recording his speed and seemingly deciding he was constantly exceeding the speed limit. It meant their mother had to take some unusual steps to show the firm that not every road in Wales now had a 20mph speed limit.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unless these are some sort of special Welsh miles, I believe this would be 32 km/h.

Is there really (close to) a general speed limit in Wales that's this low?

[–] Damdy 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is for residential areas, the vast majority is national speed limit, 60/70mph depending on road.

It is a recent change where they changed all 30mph areas to 20mph.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alright, yeah. I guess, it's just complete non-sense then that the article repeatedly states "all roads".

[–] matter 2 points 1 year ago

It applies to small roads in towns, pretty common throughout the UK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Most residential roads now are 20mph by default.