Twenty percent report they exceed the speed limit of 110 k.p.h. on highway 6.
A Teleseker telephone survey of 1,000 Israeli drivers found that more than half admitted they disobey the speed limit. More than a fifth of those polled, 22 percent, reported they drive as much as 15 kilometers per hour above the limit. Thirty-one percent of the respondents said they drive 16 kilometers per hour(k.p.h.) or more above the speed limit. Only 47 percent claimed they do not speed at all but added they encounter other drivers who travel at excessive speeds.
Police seem to enforce the speed limit more thoroughly in the north of the country, according to the poll. A higher number of those asked reported they knew more than one person who had been caught and ticketed for speeding.
Breaking the poll down by regions of the country, drivers in the north most relate to speeding as dangerous. Relatively fewer drivers from the Sharon region and Jerusalem reported that they speed either up to or more than 15 k.p.h. above the speed limit. Many drivers in the north expressed a preference that the speed limits between cities be increased.
Thirty eight (38) percent reported that they drive faster than 90 k.p.h. between cities. Fifty five (55) percent not only are convinced that limit is not fast enough for highways between cities, but further support raising that limit.
Twenty percent report they exceed the speed limit of 110 k.p.h. on highway 6, and 45 percent support raising the maximum allowed speed.
Per capita more Israeli drivers feel the speed limits should be raised than do European or American drivers, for similar streets. The method of the study for accessing that data on European and American data was not immediately available.
The poll was ordered by the traffic-safety organization Or Yarok (Green Light).