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What does “speed was a factor in 73% of collisions” mean?

• deleted 5y ago
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• lmm 5y ago
  Most collisions are caused by a confluence of multiple factors, and reducing them to a single "cause" is misleading.
  • dabbledash 5y ago
    That doesn’t answer my question. To be more direct, I’m suspicious that this is just a misleading / question begging way of saying “in 73% of accidents, someone was speeding.” Which doesn’t really tell me anything unless I have already accepted the premise that speeding is usually a problem.
    • lmm 5y ago
      Ah I see. It means investigators assessed speed as being a causal factor. But they can and do consider multiple things to be causal factors. I don't remember more precise details.