More BS = Speed = Alcohol

[411]

To put it in perspective, driving just 5km/h over the speed limit in a 60km/h zone is as dangerous as driving with a Blood Alcohol Concentration of 0.05.

http://www.tacsafety.com.au/todo.html

@ those conditions , most of the people here are highly intoxicated :!:

[nbw791]

...

[Public Enemy No 1]

Also, I bet a blood alcohol level of .05 makes you more than double as likely to get busted for speeding.

[carbonhed]

Makes you wonder just how pissed the cops must be when they're blasting through 50Kph areas at 100 plus

[GTO_04]

I doubt there is any truth to that. That's only 3 mph for those of you wondering. Someone dies every 32 minutes in the United States as a result of an impaired driving crash. I doubt someone dies that frequently because of a 3 mph speeder.

X2! The speed nazis will stop at nothing and the truth is not really a consideration for them.

Indiana raised their speed limits last year and traffic fatalities and number of accidents are down. Not much mention of it in the mass media. The news media would prefer to have us believe the sky is falling. They sell more papers and get more viewers that way!

When the bill was passed to raise speed limits, the auto insurance industry was predicting mass carnage! Hasn't happened. And the speed limit increase included non-interstate highways too.

GTO_04

[edweird]

Kinda one dimensional.

The faster you go, the more distance you will cover before reacting and then stopping your vehicle. Duhh :roll:

Nothing about looking farther down the road, nothing about avoiding the collision rather than just putting the brakes on.

Too simplistic to be meaningful.

Ed

[SmaartAasSaabr]

I doubt there is any truth to that. That's only 3 mph for those of you wondering. Someone dies every 32 minutes in the United States as a result of an impaired driving crash. I doubt someone dies that frequently because of a 3 mph speeder.

Agree 100 %.

But a BAC of 0.05 is not very much either. Generally most people start to have their driving affected around 0.12 or so and the people who run over people and have the crazy accidents are generally way way above that...

Anyway there is not really any way to correlate such a statistic and as such is a meaningless figure...

[nbw791]

...

[GTO_04]

Plus, the roads with the highest speeds, and highest speed limits, have the lowest fatality rates.

Contrary to what IIHS would have us believe, the 85th percentile rule still applies!

GTO_04