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Top Gear's Chris Harris wants 70mph speed scrapped so 'lunatics' can do 190mph

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Top Gear host Chris Harris has announced that he wants the UK motorway speed limits lifted. He explained that this is so “lunatics” like him can travel at an eye-watering speed of“190mph”.The TV host said the 70mph limit was set in 1967 and cars can “travel safely at much higher speed these days”. READ MORE: Jeremy Clarkson branded 'fat bumbling idiot' by Richard Hammond in Clarkson's Farm dig The 47 year old said that 70 miles per hour makes “perfect sense” on busy roads.However he doesn't think that they are needed “at 9pm, on an empty stretch of motorway, with excellent driving conditions, in a car that’s capable of cruising at double the limit."He said: “The issue here isn’t so much people like me who the anti-speeding lobby views as murdering lunatics wanting to travel at 190mph the whole time, it’s just the sensible application of a limit where it is necessary.”But Road Safety GB’s James Gibson said there was a “link between speed and severity of collisions and casualties”.And Becky Guy, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: “Studies have shown that lower motorway limits help maintain smoother traffic flows, reduce air pollution and save drivers fuel.

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