Are you seriously suggesting that 66% speed at speed camera locations?!!! Now that would be silly.
Those figures are clearly from relatively covert traffic surveys of one kind or another - and certainly wouldn't be so high if the measuring device was visible, now would they? And they will be across a wide range of roads (they do it in villages near us and trunk routes regularly)
Now I will accept that you probably wouldn't put a pair of wires (one of the normal methods of measuring speed) down on a roundabout, but you have to accept, given that 66% or 50% is vastly greater than 13% of fatal accidents (or the 5% figure for speeding related accidents as a whole) that either
a) The vast majority of accidents occur at locations where speed limits are irrelevant OR b) Speeders are safer as a group than non-speeders.
Which do you prefer?
In either case the speeder-centric approach to road safety is useless - as indeed it has proved to be over the last 15 years.
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