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Note these numbers are not mutually exclusive since there might be overlapping factors (i.e. drunk people driving fast or fast drivers who are drunk). LOL
20yrsinBranson
I looked at that site.
Total traffic fatalities for 2007 were 41,059. Total. So where do you get 105,365?
Here are two reports that may interest you:
Speeding - http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/nhtsa_static_file_downloader.jsp?file=/staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA/NCSA/Content/TSF/2006/810814.pdf (broken link)
Alcohol - http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/nhtsa_static_file_downloader.jsp?file=/staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA/NCSA/Content/TSF/2007/810985.pdf (broken link)
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/nhtsa_static_file_downloader.jsp?file=/staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA/NCSA/Content/RNotes/2008/811016.pdf (broken link)
By the way, speeding on the interstates accounts for only 13% of all speed related accidents. Most crashes occur in 25-45 mph zones on surface streets, with cross traffic and lights. If you want to quote the NHTSA, alcohol is attributed to over 40% of all crashes, speeding, just over 30%.
Stats aside, by trying to be some sot of vigilante, you are adding to the danger on our roads.
Unfortunately the NHTSA numbers don't show actual BACs either - in 2007 only ~13,000 accidents involved BAC over the .08 legal limit - otherwise known as drunk driving. Same goes for speed, 1 mph over or 30, you have to get into more detailed reports to see the details, and many agencies don't report them.
Unfortunately the NHTSA numbers don't show actual BACs either - in 2007 only ~13,000 accidents involved BAC over the .08 legal limit - otherwise known as drunk driving. Same goes for speed, 1 mph over or 30, you have to get into more detailed reports to see the details, and many agencies don't report them.
That reprting site he quoted actually breaks down the numbers by speed. Guess where most of the accidents took place?
911 IS the emergency line. While you are wasting that dispatchers time with a speeding report, someone else might be on hold while they bleed to death.
What's the non-emergency 911, 911 then press #?
have you ever dialed 911 before? I have no idea where you live but if you call, dispatch gives you a choice to make it an emergency or not.
Gosh, 55 mph is 10 under the national average for interstates. Must be those left lane cruisers causing all the accidents.
For a vehicle with a trailor, the speed limit is usually 55mph.
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