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From: smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,net.auto
Subject: Re: Nation speed limit increase
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Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 17:04:40 EDT
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> > 
> > One thing I've never seen on here is any kind of variance analysis of just
> > how much the speed limit change DID affect the fatality rate.
> >  Surely SOMEBODY (insurance company, govt. organization
> > or whoever) has statistically isolated the speed limit change. I think this
> > information would be quite interesting!
> > 
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh


1955	26,100	2.7 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle-miles
1960	38,137
1965	49,163
1970	54,633
1973	55,511
**************** 55 MPH *******************
1974	46,402
1975	45,853	1.3 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle-miles
*********** Light-weight Cars *************
1978	52,411
1979	53,524
1980	53,300
1981	51,500	3.1 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle-miles
1982	46,000

The statistics are from some dusty almanacs.  The comments
are my own, but compacts and subcompacts have 3 times the
fatality rate of the rubber-wheeled tanks of the 60's and
early 70's.