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From: dave@lethe.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <2375@lethe.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 89 03:30:47 GMT
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In article <89Apr28.142013edt.9324@ois.db.toronto.edu> jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco") writes:>
>I remember reading somewhere that there was a dramatic decrease in American
>highway automobile accidents (or was it deaths?) when the highway speed limit
>was reduced to 55 mph.  Can anyone confirm?

  Actually the recorded result was that the number of accidents **on the 
limited-access roads** fell, but accidents on surface roads in cities which
were adjacent to the limited-access roads rose precipitiously (sp?).
  As it happened, the highway death rates were collected/reported country-
wide and the surface road rates by state, so the effect wasn't noted for
several years.  Subsequently the justification was changed to fuel economy.

--dave
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