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Re: The Federal Study that Finds Speed Limits Irrelevant...



In Article <3v1adr$jed@crl6.crl.com>, kimberln@crl.com (J. Kimberlin) wrote:

>I'm not surprised that the findings on speed show it generally irrevalent.  
>The question is that if speed doesn't cause accidents, what does?

    Cars hitting things. Usually other cars. :-)

>
>Actually, an API study on Pay at the Pump Insurance, found that accidents 
>are caused by traffic density, followed by (I think) driver attitude, 
>with speed a factor albeit a minor one.

    It all boils down to people operating vehicles in a manner for which they
lack the requisite skill and proficiency. You want to really address accidents,
institute meaningfull training and periodic, meaningfull, proficiency testing.
This would almost certainly alleviate the traffic density factor, too.

        -- Joe



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