Posted on 03/11/2014 1:39:42 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
Including you for making that statement ;-) (Take the average of 10+20+15+30+25+280 and see how many are below average)
I heard a clip last night on WSB of a State lawmaker (the bill’s author, maybe).
He said [paraphrased] ‘And for those of you who say the person coming up behind you is speeding, I have a suggestion. You can call 911 to report a speeder.”
Really, he is suggesting the public tie up the 911 lines to report speeders? Regardless of what anyone thinks of the law, that is a truly moronic suggestion. The next law would be making it a crime to report speeders using 911. Where does it stop?
I try to be a considerate driver. I get over if someone comes up behind me when I can do so safely. If I am passing a car or cars in right lane at 80 miles an hr and some jerk comes up behind me doing 85-90, I will pass the car on the right before I get over, but I will not match his speed to make him happy.
No, think of it like this. If you live in a city where 66% are Chinese, but you only have 33% Chinese in the jail population, you can conclude that Chinese are half as likely to be charged with a crime than others.
Actually, speeding is well distributed on everything from school zones to superhighways as are fatal accidents.
In reality, the real causes of fatal accidents are drunk driving and driver inattention. Speeders are likely to be more attentive to the road unless they are drunk so the statistics are quite consistent with the theory that speeders are less likely to be in a fatal accident (unless they are drunk).
Data source to back assertions?
You need to understand: in this region, the _normal_ cruising speed for a 65MPH zone is 80. Law enforcement doesn’t even begin to enforce that law until 20MPH _over_ the posted limit.
Whatever the law says the speed limit is, anyone doing 20% or more _below_ the _normal_ speed of some 75% of vehicles in dense traffic is a hazard.
And yes, the speed limit should be increased to what normal traffic in good conditions runs. It’s the norm without adverse incident; anyone disrupting the normal flow is a far greater risk to human life than ignoring numbers on an occasional sign.
Making this a misdemeanor is overkill. Having a nontrivial criminal record just for not getting out of someone’s way is just wrong. Citation, yes; potential jail time, no.
Not wasting my time to satisfy your question. Feel free not to believe me.
There _are_ a lot of drivers who _do_ hold a full-blown “F U” attitude toward those faster drivers they wantonly interfere with.
And sometimes yes, someone DOES have a good reason to ignore speed limits. Having had to race family members to the hospital more than once for difficulty & worsening breathing (no time to wait for ambulance), I assure you someone trying to slow me down out of a self-righteous attitude and self-appointed law-enforcement role would seriously risk being the adjudicated cause of an accident.
I feel free to believe you B.S.
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