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to reduce speeds to 30 kms/hour in towns and cities: "DGT traffic authority has announced plans to reduce the speed limit on all urban roads with just one lane in each direction to 30 km/hour, or in one way streets with a single lane. Currently most such roads have a 50 km/hour limit.The change will come into force with the publication of the new Spanish Highway Code, el Reglamento General de Circulación, and was announced by the General Director, Pere Navarro, in Córdoba on Thursday.
He justified the measure by saying no pedestrian can survive a car at 70 kms/hour, 50% survive a 50 kms/hour impact, but 95% survive a 30 kms/hour impact.
In 2009, 286 pedestrians were killed on Spanish roads, 46% of them in towns and cities."
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