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The number of speeding-related deaths is not declining despite major safety improvements in vehicles in recent years, including airbags and anti-lock brakes, the GSHA said. Speeding is a major factor in about one-third of the 42,000 traffic deaths a year in the USA.
I really hate accident statistics. There are so many factors involved in each acident, but you get idiots making sweeping claims like speeding causes accidents (I contend that it's usually not speed, it's the difference in speed that causes problems). They should be able to look at fatality rates vs. how far over the speed limit. I'd guess that 5-10 mph over is usually not a problem.The National Motorists Association, which lobbied for repeal of the national maximum speed limit, found the report "disappointing," said John Holevoet, the group's director of development. "All this report does is highlight how out of the mainstream many of our speed limits are. At best, maybe one-quarter of the people are following a speed limit at a given time. Practically everyone speeds. They're going to try and say this is causing highway deaths. (But) we are looking at the lowest fatality rates ever."