As a regular user of the A14 and a concerned reader of newspaper articles detailing the daily carnage along this road I wonder if anyone has bothered to investigate the issue of speeding commercial vehicles and the impact on road traffic accidents. In my experience HGV regularly travel at between 60-70 mph and I am routinely overtaken by LGVs moving at 70-80 mph.
My query to Northamptonshire and Leicestershire police concerning this non-enforcement of speed limits has been completely ignored.
[Extract from the Highway Code] 
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103: You MUST NOT exceed the maximum speed limits for the road and for your vehicle (see the table below). Street lights usually mean that there is a 30 mph speed limit unless there are signs showing another limit.
Law RTRA sects 81,86,89 & sch 6 |
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Speed Limits |
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Built-up
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Elsewhere |
Motorways |
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carriage-
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Dual
carriage-
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Type of vehicle |
MPH |
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MPH |
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Cars and motorcycles
(including car derived vans up to 2 tonnes maximum laden weight)
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30 |
60 |
70 |
70 |
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Cars towing caravans or trailers
(including car derived vans and motorcycles)
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30 |
50 |
60 |
60 |
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Buses and coaches
(not exceeding 12 metres in overall length)
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30 |
50 |
60 |
70 |
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Goods vehicles
(not exceeding 7.5 tonnes maximum laden weight)
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30 |
50 |
60 |
70+ |
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Goods vehicles
(exceeding 7.5 tonnes maximum laden weight)
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30 |
40 |
50 |
60 |
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These are the national speed limits and apply to all roads unless signs show otherwise |
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