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In <7a4mon$gk6@nnrp2.farm.idt.net>, "Douglas A. Willinger" <dougwill@idt.net> writes:

>>>This is consistent with my long held observations, and those of others who
>>>remember how the 55 mph speed limit subverted safety upon our highways.

>>
>>  Doug, I use the data on auto fatalities from 1973-1974 to
>>teach statistics...you need some data base and it was also
>>obvious that govenment propaganda was largly a lie.  They
>>claimed 9,000 lives per year were 'saved' due to the
>>lowering of the national speed limit to 55.  Some states,
>>such as MD, showed the same predicted drop in fatalities
>>even though they always had a 55 mph speed limit.
>
>Always?  I believe I remember 70 mph (60 mph for trucks?) upon I-95 around
>1970-72.  However, it is indeed true that most of the drop in fatalities
>occurred upon roads unaffected by the 55 mph speed limit law, e.g those that
>always had speed limits of 55 mph or lower.
 
 Some (long) parts of the Capital Beltway in Prince George's
 County were posted at 65 and even 70 MPH prior to 1973.
 
 In Montgomery County, east of Md. 97 (Georgia Avenue),
 the limit was 60 or 65.  It was 50 west of Md. 97, over
 to the 270 Spur, where I think the limit went back to 60.
 
 If memory serves, most of the Virginia Beltway was 60.