What are the implications of your findings?
Written by LS Friedman
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Speed kills. The repeal of the National Maximum Speed Law is an example of a policy that can have a direct life or death impact on its citizens. There is a general accepted risk and callousness towards fatalities in motor vehicle crashes. However, our study clearly shows that policy can directly result in more deaths. The inverse is true as well -- a well guided policy can lead to reduction in deaths on roads.
