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> More than 1 in 4 fatal crashes in the United States involve at least one speeding driver, making speeding a factor in nearly 10,000 deaths each year, in addit
by bequanna 5y ago
> More than 1 in 4 fatal crashes in the United States involve at least one speeding driver, making speeding a factor in nearly 10,000 deaths each year, in addition to an unknowable number of injuries.
We hear this statistic all the time from law enforcement and I smell BS. Is there some quantitative method being used to determine if speed was a factor? More likely, this is some checkbox on a form an officer checks almost by default when filing a report.
The article goes on to later discuss the difficulty in correlating speed limit and deaths. Perhaps this is difficult to determine because the correlation is low or non existent at the speeds most drivers drive (5-10 mph over limit.)
- bradleyy 5y ago96% of all deaths in America, the person ate potatoes within the last 4 days. Because we eat lots of potatoes. Correlation only.
- leetcrew 5y agoI would guess that at least one out of four drivers is exceeding the speed limit at all times, so the fact that one out of four fatal crashes involves speeding doesn't say much. it's odd to start off the article with such a weak statistic and say nothing about how tenuous the causal link is, but the the rest of the article does a pretty good job exploring the absurdity of US speed limits.