[Wil H]

OOoops! sorry, re transmit...:-)

How about Fatalities?

What's your point? you can go through a windshield if you hit a brick wall while travelling 25mph if you are not wearing a seat belt.

It's Speed DIFFERENTIAL that causes more accidents than speed itself, ie a mix of fast and slow traffic,or the sudden slowing of the traffic flow, that is more dangerous than cars all driving at high speed.

[mewzilla]

From the NHTSA stats I've seen, survbivability is directly affected by speed. IOW, the slower the vehicle's going, the better your chances for surviving the accident. And if you're somewhere that's not near a good trauma center when you have you're crash, maybe going that ten miles over the speed limit wasn't such a great idea.

I will admit to some bias here. We had a family member killed in an MVA when she was hit by someone exceeding the speed limit. It's left me with an interest in accident safety issues.