what is the speed limit on a dual carridgeway with a national speed limit sign?ie white circle with a black line across the center. i thought it was 60,my daughter who is learning to drive says its 70,so does my son who is a policeman.a dual carrigeway near my home has both the national speed limit sign and 60mph? fookin confused lol

 

Basically NSL on a single carriageway is 60mph and on a dual carriageway is 70mph.

There can be other restrictions depending on the road or vehicle.

 

national speed limit on...

single carriage way - 60mph
dual carriage way - 70mph

 

yeah i thought it was 70 too...doesnt have to have a hard shoulder to be a 70.

 

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.htm

 

also depends on how the carriegays are divided

 

As above: 2 lanes with a cental reservation is classed as dual carriageway 70 limit, 2 lanes with no central reservation classed as single carriageway so is 6 limit

 

But in a van the dual carriageway limit is 60.

 

You learn something new everyday. Does this apply to motorways being a 60 in a van aswel mate?

 

Nope, motorways are still 70 for vans or goods vehicles less than 7.5 ton (unless trailering or articulated), its just the dual carriage ways that are restricted to 60 instead of 70, and single carriage ways 50 instead of 60. Car-derrived vans have 70 limits for both.

I only recently found out that the transit connect can only do 60 on dual carriage ways so im glad i didnt go for one of those! I suppose it depends how strict the copper is though.

 

If it has a central reservation, 70mph unless posted different. No reservation, 60 mph.

 

Car derived vans can do 70 tho, so an escort van could, but a connect would be breaking the law lol.

Rather need to stop the connect or even crash it at 70 than the escort tho.

 

For vans, anything with a commercial chassis (i.e. not based on a car) is subject to different speed limits.

So I was told by the occifer that stopped me last year.

 

A dual carriage way is not always 70mph

 

I just wish the people that drive on the single dual carrage near where i live could see this! Some of them do 30mph! The amount of times i feel like taking the national speed limit sign down and putting a 60 up!

 

I had an arguement with a taxi driver once which resulted in me not paying him. Was on single carriage way and the driver was doing 80mph. I said you know the speed limit is 60 here and he said.....

'who told you that?'

Fucking unbelieveable, he then claimed that all taxi drivers drive fast.

So I suppose thats ok then?

I love the way taxi firms recruit straight off the boat, its questionable as to whether the drivers even have a licence

 

A Transit Connect can do 70 on the dual carriageway as it's a car derived van, the bigger Transit can do 70 if it has windows in the back. So it's only the larger vans with no windows in the back that are limited.

 

ive always known them as

single is 60
dual is 70 unless stated
and country lane is 50

 

Transit connect, Renault Kangoo etc are NOT car derived vans and are treated as vans under the legislation.

 

national speed limit applies.....

 

I thought a country lane is the same as a single! 60

 

A country lane is a single carriageway

 

If it's a Transit ( Torneo) or other similar sized van BUILT AS A MINIBUS car speed limits apply, sticking windows in the back of a Transit won't make it legal to do 70 on a dual carriageway.

The lower speed rules apply to any goods vehicle over 2 tonnes max laden weight and no that doesn't mean if a full size Transit is empty it can do 70 it's the rated max weight not actual.

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nor does it always have 2 lanes in each direction...

it is still a dual carriage way if there is 1 lane in each direction but with a proper central reservation ie grass verge or kerb/barrier. ie not just a white line

 

gurnE - yeah thats what i thought too but xr4x4rs said a country lane is only 50!

 

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