Our community is a short cut. Its 25Mph even outside school hours. Its at the bottom of a hill. Someone blew by me this morning doing easily 50Mph. We've had so

Our community is a short cut. Its 25Mph even outside school hours. Its at the bottom of a hill. Someone blew by me this morning doing easily 50Mph. We've had someone roll their SUV onto the sidewalk, narrowly missing my wife and kids - and that driver was going uphill! So totally get it. I've usually got the fastest car in sight, and I'm doing the speed limit through town. On the freeway I go the same speed as everyone else. Sometimes a bit faster, sometimes a bit slower. Data shows that driving at the speed of traffic, or slightly faster, is less dangerous than driving 5mph slower. Where I live, the freeway is regularly 75mph, even though the limit is 65mph. With the obvious exception of rush hour, when I encounter a traffic knot, its because two people are driving slower than the rest of traffic wants to, and everyone has to negotiate around them. One could view the 50 people wanting to pass the two as the problem, or we could criticize the two traveling the speed limit. In the absence of those two people, the safety of the other 50 would increase. Conversely, in the absence of those other 50 people, the safety of those two would increase. Seems an obvious choice to me. Its easy to point out yahoos who run red lights or speed through town, but these are not representative, and doing 10 mph over the limit through a school zone is not remotely like doing 10mph over the limit on a freeway.