{"id":5160,"date":"2012-07-14T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2013-07-07T00:55:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T04:55:53","slug":"speed-limits-and-traffic-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/speed-limits-and-traffic-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Limits And Traffic Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/071012_0328_SpeedLimits1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Katy Waldman looked at the relationship between speed limits and traffic fatalities. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raising speed limits does not lead to an increase in traffic accidents.<\/li>\n<li>This is likely because each driver has a &#8216;comfort speed zone&#8217; that they drive at, regardless of what the posted limit is.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, raising speed limits can lower the rate of accidents because drivers are much more cautious with higher posted limits around.<\/li>\n<li>However while the number of accidents stays the same or declines, the number of <em>fatalities <\/em>increase because each accident is more likely to result in death at higher speeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including the details of the study, the second highest speed limit in the world, what the National Motorists Association suggests, the key to road safety, the 85<sup>th<\/sup> percentile speed, and links to various studies, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2012\/06\/texas_85_mile_per_hour_speed_limit_do_higher_speed_limits_cause_more_accidents_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2012\/06\/texas_85_mile_per_hour_speed_limit_do_higher_speed_limits_cause_more_accidents_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Waldman looked at the relationship between speed limits and traffic fatalities. Highlights include: Raising speed limits does not lead to an increase in traffic accidents. This is likely because each driver has a &#8216;comfort speed zone&#8217; that they drive at, regardless of what the posted limit is. In fact, raising speed limits can lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-5160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature","tag-trafficonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/071012_0328_SpeedLimits1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9201,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions\/9201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}