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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) writes:
> 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?
Read it again. They did not say that speed was "generally
irrelevant". In fact they found that the cars most likely to be
involved in accidents were those in the 0-5 percentile speeds, ie the
SLOWEST cars on the road. The second most likely group were those
in the 95th-99th %tile speeds. What they did find was that
"speeding", defined as exceeding the posted limits, was generally
uncorrelated with accidents (except for the few very fastest drivers).
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