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0 pointsbell-cot3y ago0 comments

In a country where the first responders, hospitals, etc. are obligated to provide expensive services and care for victims of motor vehicle accidents - regardless of their ability to pay - there is the moral and public policy issue of "My high-speed fun, somebody else's high taxes and medical bills".

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tristor3y ago· 2 in thread

Yet, all the research seems to indicate that speeding reduces the occurrence of accidents, it just increases their severity when they do occur (more fatalities). The primary cause of accidents is inattentiveness (usually someone on their phone) and after that alcohol-related accidents. Speeding is not a primary cause, only a proximate cause of the accident, something else caused the accident, speed is only blamed because it exacerbates the result.

bell-cotOP3y ago

I'd guess that the research you mention was focused on fairly narrow ranges of speed, road conditions, speeds of the other motorists, etc.

Vs. user everly related that his father was doing well over 100MPH. Even ignoring all other factors, the duration of inattentiveness needed to cause an accident, at extreme speeds, is far lower than at legal speeds.

FireBeyond3y ago

Apropos of anything else, in many parts of the US, doing that speed, particularly on a motorbike, is almost reckless even for the sole reason of ... have you seen our infrastructure budgets? We're not known for our high quality roads. A single pothole at those speeds is launching you over the handlebars.

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