Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)

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From: Marc
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 00:00

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grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon Sommerville) wrote:
>Kluck Roger wrote:
>>On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 02:58:17 GMT, grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon
>>Sommerville) wrote:

>>>I want safer roads.  Artificially low speed limits don't make roads
>>>safer.  Claiming "speed kills" without having any scientific evidence
>>>to back up the claim that higher speed limits will result in more
>>>deaths is pure emotional argument that cannot be supported without
>>>bringing in irrelevant examples like children playing in yards.

>>The data you want is long available.  When speed limits were raised
>>fatalities increased dramatically.  

>>But you're right SPeed doesn't kill. Stopping REALLY fast kills.

>Nationally the fatality rate spiked by 600 or so, a far cry from the
>6400 predicted by Joan Claybrook.

You mean that the fatalities spiked by 600.  The rate still
decreased...

Marc
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From: Gumbyy@ticnet.com (Marc)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/07/02
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