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Yet people are still the same. Increasing speed on some road may make sense. But it’s not a solution to all speed problems.
by para_parolu 4y ago
Yet people are still the same. Increasing speed on some road may make sense. But it’s not a solution to all speed problems.
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- akira2501 4y agoSpeed is rarely the only factor in a fatal crash. Alcohol and drugs are the more pertinent issues. Aside from that, pedestrians are 1/6 of all fatalities, as are motorcycles. Most remaining fatalities are single vehicle accidents. Hard collisions with solid objects, ejections from vehicles and bodies of water are fairly common modes. The rear seat in vehicles is noticeably less safe than the front seats. The time of day in some states shows massive swings in the rate of fatalities, and not always correlated with rush hour traffic patterns. The state you are in also seems to be a large factor, and again, not correlated with overall population density. There's a huge number of data points, and speed does seem like a relatively unimportant one. If you do want to have an impact there, then I suspect that simply redesigning your roads with good considerations for pedestrians would be a better use of your budget.
- dazc 4y agoEveryday you can see the affect that speed has where cars are driving far too close together at speeds where a collision will occur before the driver has mentally registered a need to apply the breaks.