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Originally Posted by Pheonix
I have to interject here, and I'm sure Blue will too. If you've seen the kind of accidents, many of them fatal, caused by "a little bit of speed", you might reconsider. Then again, you probably wouldn't. The facts, since you like to play with those, show that speed enforcement does in fact save lives. It just so happens to generate revenue as well. Yes, its an inconvenience and a trifle for those who are pulled over between 1-5 mph over. That's irrelevant. Even if an accident isn't fatal, it can cause lasting damage all the same.
It is true that accidents will be caused by going the limit or going under as well; hence the term accident. But negligently speeding simply increased the odds. Outdated speed limits or not...if the majority of traffic is going the limit, and the at-fault is not...it doesn't matter how out-dated the speed limit is. He's still at-fault, and he was still speeding.
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show evidence of that. any statistics or any studies or any expert opinion by engineers or any actual examples that show that speed enforcement reduces accidents or saves lives, or that accidents happen as a result of the sole reason that a driver was slightly speeding, absent any other mitigating factors like distracted driving, talking on a cell phone, drunk, failing to obey red lights, mechanical failure of the car, etc....
edit: and while we're at it, explain to me why is it that all the speed traps i see are:
- during the day when speeding is safer, not at night when speeding is more dangerous,
- when the sun is shining and the roads are dry and speeding is safer, not when it's foggy or raining or snowing when speeding is more dangerous
- when its a weekend or holiday when streets are empty and speeding is safer, not during rush hour when streets are crowded and speeding is more dangerous
- in wider more open sections of the roads where speeding is safer, and not in the narrower tigher sections where speeding is more dangerous
Basically, why is it that speed traps are set up where speeding is more likely, not where speeding is more dangerous