Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site rduxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!rduxb!daw1 From: daw1@rduxb.UUCP (WILLIAMS) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: time for me to leave (actually 55 again!) Message-ID: <647@rduxb.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 21:46:37 EDT Article-I.D.: rduxb.647 Posted: Sat Aug 24 21:46:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:23:46 EDT References: <1643@akgua.UUCP> <1129@vax1.fluke.UUCP> <1270@poseidon.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA Lines: 22 > It is a fact that highway fatalities are much lower with a 55 > MPH limit. # # ### ## # #### # # #### # # #### ### # # # # # ## # # # ## # # # ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # ## # # # ## # # ### # # #### # # #### # # #### ### In the last decade or so that 55mph has been in effect fatalities have indeed gone down. But that is not the only variable. There are many others, such as improved vehicle construction, to account for the trend. Think about it. Doug Williams AT&T Bell Labs Reading, PA mhuxt!rduxb!daw1