Remove the speed limit to the USA to increase Highway found dead
In 12 tates mentioned that its highway speed limits in 1996, the number of deaths from car accidents have increased by a total of 500 in the last nine months of the year, compared with the same period in 1995, According to a study by the Insurance Institute Highway Safety.
The study by the institute, a non-profit association of insurance means that the full human cost of the national repeal the speed limit higher, finally, because 27 other countries have their limits Congress abolished speed, given that nationals of 65 miles hourly limit in December 1995.
NHTSA is preparing its own report on highway deaths. Phil framework, a spokesman for the agency, said that its result would be the same field.
To speed limits in 12 states on the Interstate system, mortality rates averaged more than 12 percent after the insurance institution. If all States to follow the model - just increased limits on the states of relaxation and other provisions on roads and the state - the number of deaths per year in cars would increase by about 6 to cent, “said Adrian Lund, Senior Vice-President of the Institute. Last year, 32317 drivers and passengers died on highways and roads in this country.
”If the nature of the speed limit increases we have seen in these 12 countries occur throughout the country, we could in search of more than 2000 deaths per year,’’said Lund.
Increase speed, it is difficult for cars to stop and makes it more serious accidents, he said. You can quickly”,” he said. ”This is only a question, how many lives we willing to pay for it.”
The increase in deaths in countries where speed limits were partially masked by a general improvement of security cars, which saw a few people.
The total number of deaths in motor vehicle accidents for 1996 was 41907, including pedestrians and cyclists - only slightly higher than the sum of 41798 in 1995.
”You can not only in the aspect of all deaths, because there are many factors,’’said Lund. ”We have changes in cars. Airbags, some bad press recently, but more than 2000 people are still alive today because the cars have airbags and the fleet is more and more.”
Even if experts from the Insurance Institute of Economy expect that the number of dead increases because speeds are higher.
In the study published on Friday, the Institute compared the mortality rates in 12 states, among the first to raise their speed limit mortality in the 18 states which have not increased their speed limit during the year 1996, its borders are collected or only a few sections of roads. She compared the changes in mortality in the 12 states on the changes in these countries and 18 others over the five years preceding the speed limits.
Mr framework of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that the full effect of higher speed limits was not clear, because some countries had seen its limits recently.
The 12 countries surveyed are Arizona, California, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. Other increase their speed limits are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia.
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