U.S. Traffic Deaths on Rise
National News • August 24, 2006
Traffic deaths in the United States reached their highest levels since 1990, the government reported this week. The spike in fatalities was attributed to an increase in motorcycle and pedestrian ...
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Subject: Slow drivers proven to actualy cause more accidents
Posted On: August 25, 2006, 10:33 am CDT
Posted By: Geoff Montgomery
Comment:
By stupid and slow, I would assume that would refer to people who drive slowly in the fast lane, or people who drive 45 in a 55 and have 10 cars behind them. Are we going to blame the 10 cars who all want to drive the speed limit, who then attempt to pass the 1 slow driver? Its human nature to want to drive the speed limit and that will never change.
So if you want to make the roads safer, remove or punish the one slow car, then the other 10 cars who just want to drive the speed limit wont be tempted to make a pass, which is always risky. Contrary to popular belief, its the slow cars that cause the accidents, because slower cars, ruin the FLOW of traffic. If you ruin the FLOW of traffic then you create passing and lane changes which statisticly lead to accidents, NOT SPEED. Also slower drivers are usually driving slowly because they lack the basic reflexes to drive the speed limit.
To the person who claimed the increase in speed limit caused this increase in fatalities, that is not true. This article refers to an increase in fatalities from 2004. The speed limit increases were actually well before that. You people need to STUDY the situation before you go spouting off.
Subject: Slow drivers proven to actualy cause more accidents
So if you want to make the roads safer, remove or punish the one slow car, then the other 10 cars who just want to drive the speed limit wont be tempted to make a pass, which is always risky. Contrary to popular belief, its the slow cars that cause the accidents, because slower cars, ruin the FLOW of traffic. If you ruin the FLOW of traffic then you create passing and lane changes which statisticly lead to accidents, NOT SPEED. Also slower drivers are usually driving slowly because they lack the basic reflexes to drive the speed limit.
To the person who claimed the increase in speed limit caused this increase in fatalities, that is not true. This article refers to an increase in fatalities from 2004. The speed limit increases were actually well before that. You people need to STUDY the situation before you go spouting off.