EDITOR’S NOTE: I am suggesting Everyone Pay Attention To This.
My Past Experience with The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is they are only interested in protecting their own and Do Not Care About The Driving Public.
Watch For Them To Try And Lower Speed Limits.
Do Not Let Them.
–Rogue
Supreme Senior Editor in Control
Bikernet.com
Higher speed limits killing thousands
Nathan Bomey
USA TODAY
Increased speed limits have killed nearly 37,000 people over the past 25 years, according to new research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
While experts remain concerned about traffic crash deaths caused by alcohol, cellphone use and drugged driving, speeding is a significant safety crisis on American roads. In 2017 alone, about 2,000 people were killed because of increased speed limits, the IIHS found.
“Every time you raise speed limits, you see more deaths,” said Charles Farmer, IIHS vice president for research and statistical services, who conducted the study.
The study concluded that a 5 mph increase in the speed limit causes an 8% increase in death rates on interstates and freeways.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 9,717 people were killed in 2017 in crashes that involved speeding, accounting for more than 1 in 4 deaths on the road.
To bring attention to the crisis, IIHS is gathering officials at a summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, this month.
The mission of IIHS is to improve insurance profits. They will chase that mission through messing with the facts and more regulations. Watch out!–Bandit
