Lancashire CC has vowed to introduce 20mph limits in residential areas across the county.

Leader of the council, Geoff Driver, said every residential area would have a 20mph limit by 2013. But the council has insisted it will not go for the blanket approach.

Tim Ashton, cabinet member for highways and transport, said: ‘We’ll establish 20mph limits in residential areas where we think they will be effective in reducing vehicle speeds and cutting casualties.

‘At the same time, we’ll adopt a common sense approach rather than put in blanket 20mph areas, as there’s clearly a need to keep traffic moving on through-routes.

‘The test we’ll use is to ask whether a 20mph limit will be effective in reducing vehicle speeds and reducing casualties – if it will, we’ll do it.’