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Re: UNFAIR SPEED LIMITS
In article <8A72550.20EA001210.uuout@westonia.com>, tom.neumann@westonia.com said:
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>Country speed limit(km/h) hwy deaths(per million km)
>----------- -------------- -------------------------
>Netherlands 120 3.2
>United Kingdom 112 3.8
>Denmark 100 4.9
>Switzerland 120 4.9
>Germany - 6.0
>United States 89 6.7
>Japan 100 7.0
>Belgium 120 9.5
>Finland 80-120 10.2
>France 130 10.4
>Italy 110-130 12.7
>Austria 130 15.7
>Portugal 120 39.3
>Spain 120 61.0
It seems to me from the statistics above that not only do higher speed limits
not contribute to higher fatality rates, but there appears to be no correlation
at all between speed limits and fatality rates.
In the table, the best and worst fatality rates (in the Netherlands and Spain,
respectively) occur with the same speed limit (120 km/h). That same limit
appears in other places as well.
To top it off, the other countries have widely varying speed limits, with no
apparent trend from lower to higher appearing as the fatality rates go up.
Perhaps the real deciding factors for fatality rates are such things as
driver training and driver attentiveness, and whether there are strictly
observed conventions/laws on lane courtesy and passing.
Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.
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