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From: alan@sun.uucp (Alan Marr)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: They Can't Drive 55
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 01:56:22 EDT
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>   3. Are fewer lives REALLY lost on our highways due to the
>      lower speed limit?

Car and Driver magazine had an excellent article a few years ago
where they showed one of the graphs that "demonstrated" that
traffic fatalities had gone down as a result of the 55 limit.
They then showed the same graph in a larger 60 year context,
which showed that there has been a long-term downward trend.
They then showed that the number of miles driven is more highly
correlated with fatalities than speed limits.  The 55 limit was
introduced at the time of the oil crisis, a time when people
naturally drove less.

Commerce and industry are being restrained by artificially low
limits, not to mention freedoms.

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