Bicycle Queensland wants Brisbane’s CBD speed limits reduced to 30km/h so pedestrians and cyclists have a better chance of surviving a crash.

There has been a spate of pedestrian incidents in Brisbane recently that left two dead and two others injured.

Crashes in Brisbane City Credit:Bicycle Queensland

Brisbane City Council reduced the speed limit to 40km/h on a majority of CBD streets in 2009 in an attempt to slow the accident rate, but Ann and Turbot streets remained at 60km/h.

State government Queensland road crash data collated by Bicycle Queensland revealed that following the speed change the rate of crashes had not changed, with 90 in the seven years before 2009 and 90 crashes after, but the crash severity had reduced.