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Originally Posted by barry_smilez20
No. It should still be illegal. But the people who get really passionate against it are misled. Speed kills. They should fight that battle, but they won't. Nobody wants to drive slow. It's ironic
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Interesting factoid that I dug up out of curiosity: roughly one-fourth of traffic fatalities occur on roads with speed limits of 35mph or less. It's higher at high speeds, but not dramatically so; roughly one-third of traffic fatalities occur on roads with speed limits of 55mph or higher.
So basically, unless you've got some source you're using that says otherwise, speed is only slightly correlated with traffic fatalities.
Data source here if anyone cares:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/stat...atalities.html