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From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: speed limits - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 01:17:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 16 01:17:20 1983
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zinfandel!berry    Jun 14 09:35:00 1983

The current issue of Car and Driver has an article on the 55 MPH
speed limit.  It is anti, of course, but well worth reading whatever
your personal view.  It includes a petition you can cut out, sign
and send to President Reagan if you like.

Why has no one mentioned that freeways are actually safer than
surface streets?  Note that everyone goes the same direction at
about the same speed, and there is no cross traffic.  This makes
head-on and "T-bone" collisions much rarer on freeways.  It seems to
me that I have seen statistics to support this somewhere.

Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.  (decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
(415)932-6900

(But note Disraeli:  "There are three types of falsehoods:  lies,
damn lies and statistics.")