Worst roads for speeding highlighted by Quartix

Quartix’s ‘SafeSpeed’ database shows reports on the relative speed of thousands of drivers every day and is used to form individual driver scores within Quartix’s fleet tracking system, which is used by more than 35,000 businesses worldwide.

Quartix driver scores not only assess a vehicle’s speed in relation to the designated speed limit on that road, they also rate a driver’s speed in relation to the average speed of other vehicles. Shown as a Relative Speed Score, that speed is all about the context of the road and is particularly helpful for rural roads when often it is not safe to drive at the speed limit.

Of more than 7,000 sample data points taken on the M6, almost half (46%) of vehicles were travelling in excess of the 70mph speed limit between junction T6 and T5.Of more than 16,000 data points on the M61 near junction 6, it found that two-in-five vehicles (40%) were travelling in excess of the 70mph speed limit.

Mark Cartwright, head of commercial vehicle incident prevention at National Highways, said: “I think the kind of rich data that businesses can pull from systems such as Quartix is invaluable. I've always liked Quartix’s Safe Speed feature. We know that speed is a significant cause of collisions and certainly makes them more serious.”

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