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Originally Posted by jdong
I support driving close to the speed limit, have never gotten a ticket, etc, but I still think that over half of fatal accidents being due to excessive speeding is hard to support with evidence.
Do I believe that half of the people crashing were going higher than the speed limit at the time? Probably. I see probably 1/4 of cars around here in California going 20 or 30% over the speed limit anyway. It's really hard to prove after the fact that "Had you been going 20mph slower, you would've avoided the accident"
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The point isn't about whether or not they could have avoided it, but about whether they would have survived it. Speed limits are also there so that if you DO crash, you can survive. A car going at 60mph into a wall, while devastating, is survivable. A car going 90mph into a wall, is not.