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Saturday, 18 July 2009 |
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To save lives, government should enact new interstate laws, researchers say
By Steven Reinberg
US News & World Report HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY,
July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Deaths and injuries on America's
interstates have increased since the repeal of the federal
55-mile-per-hour speed limit in 1995, a new study finds, and some
believe it's time to slow down again.
Researchers tracking fatalities attributed 12,545 deaths and 36,582
injuries in fatal crashes to higher speed limits implemented during the
1995-2005 study period.
"Our study clearly shows that policy can
directly result in more deaths as well as reducing deaths on our
country's roads," said lead researcher Lee S. Friedman of the division
of environmental and occupational health sciences in the School of
Public Health at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Article continues here:
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/07/16/deaths-injuries-increase-with-higher-speed-limits.html
View a FAQ by the author of the study posted here on July 29, 2009
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 |
Pinedale – Aggressive enforcement of a reduced speed limit on an eight-mile section of WY 351 is proving to reduce the crash rate between mileposts 4.5 and 13.5 according to records.
In 2007, there were 22 traffic crashes reported between milepost 5 and milepost 13 on WY 351, with ten of those crashes resulting injuries to travelers and one fatality. According to Lt. Shawn Dickerson of the Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP), in Pinedale, many of the crashes resulted in hours of road closures, which affected both private and commercial travel and production in the area.
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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Do you want your family to share the road with this guy?
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
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Shown in the table below are some electric cars currently available for under
$35,000. Note the average top speed is 45 MPH. A 55 MPH speed limit would help usher in a new age of electric cars much sooner than waiting for speedsters that will do 120 MPH - what use is that anyway? People need useful cars for trips around 20-40 miles to carry passengers and small loads like groceries. A top speed of 55 MPH for all vehicles will allow smaller, more efficient vehicles to share the public road.
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 |
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Traffic fatalities have been steadily declining for decades as technology and safety have improved, however a look at the data reveals the downward trend that mandatory airbags* brought was reversed in 1992 at the historic low of 39,250 fatalities and has been rising ever since. Had a downward trend of 2,500 fewer deaths per year continued since 1992 there would have been 991,433 less traffic fatalities by 2006.
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