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"Bruce Harper" <vtwebman@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> In article <974fdk$7qg$1@news.chorus.net>, Aardwolf
> <"se1aard"@@itis.com> wrote:
>
> > > The justification for a lot of the speeding
> > > on the interstate seems to be the "85th percentile" measurement of
> > > speed and no other factors should ever come into play.
> >
> > That's the justification for exceeding the limit ("speeding" is such an
> > imprecise, non-standardized term), and overall it's a good one.  Very
few
> > other factors _should_ come into play, especially on limited access
> > multilane highways.  Even on city streets it's usually not the case
(whether
> > the local governments do so or not) that other factors need to be taken
into
> > account.
>
> I'm sure that's a comfort to the individuals and companies who had
> their cars and trucks totaled and burned in the multi-bar pile-up
> on I-81 near Lexington on Thursday.  Same goes for the crowd over
> east on I95 near Fredricksburg.  I'm sure everyone will be glad to know
> that the ice and white-out conditions in the snow were factors that
> didn't need to come into play when determining how fast to travel.

Didn't that pile up happen with Virginia's low speed limits?  Didn't seem to
do a whole hell of a lot of good, did it?

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