Deaths, Injuries Increase With Higher Speed Limits

MSN Health and Fitness ^ | July 16, 2009 | Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter

[stephenjohnbanker]

“The solution, said Friedman, is to bring back the 55 mph speed limit”

Nanny state moonbat bump!

[Balding_Eagle]

National heath care will insure that we all will be forced to slow down ‘to save health care costs’.

[wendy1946]

THURSDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Deaths and injuries on America's interstates have increased since the repeal of the federal 55-mile-per-hour speed limit in 1995, a new study finds, and some believe it's time to slow down again....

That's wrong, plain and simple. Studies conducted in Maryland of all places for the first year or two that the 55 limit was relaxed showed serious accidents and injuries DECREASING when you got rid of the bunching which the 55 limit caused. The 55 limit was an abomination.

[Graybeard58]

Watch fatalities sky rocket when government mandates force the auto makers to build even lighhter vehicles to meet the 35 mpg standard by 2012.

[rdax]

It’s Jimmy Carter all over again

[org.whodat]

Hay jerk Lee S. Friedman if I want any sh** out of you I’ll squeeze your head!!

[GOP_Lady]

There is no way in hell that I will drive 55 mph on a highway designed to handle higher speeds.

[Man50D]

They called for implementation of a national speed management policy that would include a maximum speed of 55 mph and development of camera networks to curb speeding.

BO is setting the premise for more government intrusion and expansion. He won't have to worry if everyone drives his socialist putt putts.

[theFIRMbss]

Or maybe because
nobody ever fixes
the effing potholes!

[SUSSA]

It isn’t the higher speed limits that are killing people. It is the CAFE standards.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[driftdiver]

make it 15 and you’ll save even more lives.

heck soon we’ll need a travel permit to expend the energy necessary so it wont matter

[org.whodat]

That one is as bad as Friedman's. Absolutly no proof.

[rabscuttle385]

Just another excuse to slap folks with speeding tickets, generating more revenue for Big Government.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Eliminate cars.....wait, Obama is slowly doing that already.

[sten]

using flat numbers and not per capita numbers, is the mark of someone playing with stats

[I see my hands]

To: Lee Friedman

Why not 30 MPH or less, moron?

Who did you control in the revolution, Daddy? Your kids are going to think you are an impotent faggot. Can’t you even steal or kill anyone?

[stephenjohnbanker]

I’m in Arizona with a speed limit of 75. I’d never get anywhere!

[org.whodat]

Actually, there was several reports posted here that traffic death had plunged in the past year due mainly to the drop off in people driving. And the high cost of fuel, and also, many just don't have the funds to run around town at the slightest urge. They have learned to say home and lay back.