A government road safety consultation paper is proposing that drivers caught doing more than 20mph above the speed limit could face six points adding to their license instead of the current three. This would see drivers who were caught doing this excessive speed twice facing a ban.

The paper also recommends that a formal drug-driving limit be introduced which would aid Police in making successful prosecutions against offenders. Estimates show that as many as one in five killed in road accidents could have drugs in their system.

The document will also prompt ministers to look at lowering the drink drive limit; though they say that evidence that this would increase safety benefits would be required first. In a bid to reduce road accidents caused by drink drivers’ road safety campaigners want the maximum of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood reducing to 50mg.

AA president Edmund King expressed some member concerns about the need for adequate speed change warnings saying: "They feel that there are many areas in the country where you change, say from a 70 limit to a 50 limit, or a 60 to a 30 limit, and it's not well signed, and there's not much of a distance between the change of limits."

Theresa Villiers the Shadow transport secretary pointed out that speed cameras would not catch most anti-social drivers and said: "If there are no traffic police to pull people over and breathalyse them, the government's proposed crackdown will be nothing more than yet another empty headline."

Figures from the Department for Transport (DfT) show that fatalities on British roads from road accidents are at there lowest level since records began with 2,940 deaths during 2007, which is 6% less than the previous years figure, with childrens fatalities down to 121, a drop of 28%.

Any measures that help reduce road accidents on Britain’s roads should be welcomed, and if anti-social drivers are removed in process then that can only make the driving experience better for the millions of law abiding motorists.