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

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From: Brandon Sommerville
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 00:00
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E. Faubion wrote:

>jclemens@big.aa.net (Jonathan Clemens) wrote:
>
>>I'd certainly laugh at any attempt to foist this document off as proof
>>positive that speed kills.
>
>Who is?  The document suggests the historical trends in higher speed
>limits and traffic deaths continues... nothing I read offers proof.
>On the contrary, what this document does is destroy the argument used
>by some that higher speed limits alone reduce fatalities.

So when our conversation went:

Brandon Sommerville wrote:

>You may "know" that speed kills, but you ignore the fact that FARS
>data is gathered from reports made by those accident investigators and
>doesn't show the correlation between high speeds and danger that you
>claim.

E. Faubion wrote:

>Download speedlim.pdf from NHTSA and eat crow.

You weren't trying to prove that speed kills?
-- 
Brandon

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From: grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon Sommerville)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers (n left and fast drivers in right)
Date: 1998/07/02
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