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Originally Posted by CamaroSkooter
According to what data?  |
A call I went on tonight reminded me of this comment.
While I don't have data, nor care to look any up, I speak from personal experience.
Tonight there was a 4 vehicle collision at an intersection, a subject ran a red light and ended up clipping two vehicles, sending them spinning into other stationary traffic. This person was going 45MPH, the speed limit in that area. Now it goes without saying that running the red light will produce an accident. But had this individual been speeding, say around 55MPH, they would have timed it just right to t-bone one of these vehicles sending them rolling into the opposite direction of traffic.
Speed limits are posted for a reason. They help in more ways than you will probably understand. Vehicles are killing machines, aside from medical conditions, they are the highest ranking on the list for amount of deaths per year.
(It was just last week there was a fatal, vehicle vs. motorcycle, speed is what caused the accident.)