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Old 02-23-2012, 03:27 PM   #107
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Originally Posted by carpetmojo View Post
I'm sure you realized that the whole point of the statement is, broadly, that less dangerous things occur if speed is lower, both because impacts are less severe, or more time is available to, well, stop, basically.
I know that, but the point is if they're not watching where they are going it doesn't really matter what speed they are going at. You can kill someone just as easily at 30mph as you can at 71mph. Speed isn't really a factor in most traffic accidents. Where it is involved it does tend to make them worse than they would have otherwise been, but that doesn't mean speed is to blame for the accident.

Speed cameras ... ignore the income generation side of it, they are used as automatic crime detectors as an alternative to having police traffic patrol cars doing the same job. But speed is the only crime they can detect, they can't detect careless/dangerous driving. So their introduction was a step backwards in terms of road safety.
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