Originally Posted by wstar

Well the essence of the speed argument is that there are two ways to look at the speed factor. Speed definitely does increase accident mortality. A crash from cruising at 90 is going to be more fatal than a crash from cruising at 55, that's just physics. The counter-arguments don't deny that. The other side of the argument though, is that restricting speeds leads to traffic patterns and driver behaviors that are more likely to cause an accident in the first place.