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From: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: 55 mph kills
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Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 18:22:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 10 18:22:41 1984
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Has anyone ever heard of any attempts to relate the number of highway
deaths with the number of miles driven by the entire population during
an entire year?  I have a theory that the number of miles driven has
decreased since the speed limit was lowered to 55 MPH.  It's not clear
to me why this may have occured (maybe the price of gas, I don't know).
If this is true then it would stand to reason that the lower speed limit
directly resulted in the lower death rate.

I don't doubt that the 55 MPH speed limit has saved lives - I just
doubt that it's the only factor in the equation.  I've had too much
experience with statistics to believe that it's as simple as that.
There are usually many factors which influence real world events,
many of which are indirect.

-- 
/Don

"This morning,
 I shot six holes in my freezer.
 I think I've got cabin fever,
 Somebody sound the alarm."

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