Don't forget though that German motorway design isn't as good as ours - there are numerous dodgy junctions where traffic joining and leaving the motorway conflicts, many of them are only 2 lanes, etc.
Very fair point, there are many contributory factors involved.
Ok so while the correlation between deaths and speed is not definitive, I grant you, however it is fact that on Autobahns, the average speed is considerably higher than on our motorways, and the number of deaths are also considerably higher, so it is not beyond common sense to make a ball park correlation, yes there are other factors, but speed involved will be a major one of them.
To say speed has no contributory factor at all, and use that as a reason to say speeding is ok, is just idiotic in my opinion.
There is a link, it has been proved many times, that if you slow down, you will be less likely to kill your self and or others, that is beyond doubt.
Simple physics tell you, that if you halve your speed you will have one quarter of the kinetic energy, (inverse is, double your speed you have 4 times the energy involved) to dissipate in a collision, less energy involved, less chance of injury or death, very simple facts.
Spot the anti-car / not into cars poster's
Not sure if that was aimed at me at all, but personally it is far from the truth, as my whole working life has been around cars.
First working as a mechanic in a dealership then 15 years in motor racing from club level up to 12 years in F1. Since leaving F1 I have spent the last 9 years working at a major independent international research and development facility in the UK working on everything to do with all manner of vehicles, but mainly over the last 5 years on the development of autonomous and connected vehicles, in conjunction with several major manufacturers, the government, and other authorities.
So having spent best part fo 36 years in various parts of the automotive industry, i believe I have a pretty good basis of knowledge from which to comment from.