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'Cars can drive at 60mph on my pavement.'Ben fogle who has has scaled Mount Everest and raced to the South Pole says he 'nearly died' after almost being hit by a delivery van going 60mph on a single-track road in his village.
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00:00 The car, it stopped just in front of you, outside your house.
00:04 I don't want to be too dramatic about it,
00:06 but it really was a very, very close call.
00:08 And it's one of many, by the way,
00:10 but this one was the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:14 I feel that I want to live in a place where we feel safe
00:19 walking from house to house, which is why I moved there.
00:22 And, of course, you know, this 20-mile-an-hour speed limit
00:27 that has been introduced in many areas
00:29 has been very controversial,
00:31 especially the imposition in Wales.
00:35 A lot of people don't like the blanket ban.
00:37 So it's almost given 20-mile-an-hour limits a bad name.
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