I feel the need..

I've done a bit of motorway driving this last week and one thing that I had thought about in the past was even more apparent.

As I was in the overtaking lane, I noticed that actually 70% of the cars on the road in front of me were in the overtaking lane and there was the odd car in the middle lane going at exactly the speed limit and some trucks and other cars on the inside lane travelling at around 60-70mph.

The cars in the overtaking lane were doing around 90 miles per hour but these days most people do that. Would it not be more safe to simply increase the speed limit on motorways instead of funneling most of the traffic down one high speed lane?

After all, danger comes when there is a high difference in speed between the fastest and the slowest. If everyone drove at the same speed, be it 20 mph or 200 mph, then provided the cars were safe enough, the roads were in good condition and the drivers were competent there shouldn't be many crashes at all.

Personally I don't really think speed accounts for many incidents on motorways anyway. If you see the serious ones in the news, it often involves either a truck, an old lady driving the wrong way, a drunk or someone that falls asleep.