What is wrong with Ohio drivers these days?

[ram2]

Originally Posted by WRnative

Technically, lower speed limits reduce the capacity of any road, while increasing saftey.

Incorrect. The U.S highway fatality rate went down when the 55mph speed limit was abolished in the mid-1990s.

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by ram2

Incorrect. The U.S highway fatality rate went down when the 55mph speed limit was abolished in the mid-1990s.

<<A new IIHS study shows that increases in speed limits over two decades have cost 33,000 lives in the U.S. In 2013 alone, the increases resulted in 1,900 additional deaths, essentially canceling out the number of lives saved by frontal airbags that year.>>

Higher speed limits lead to more deaths

This is just deaths. Injuries also are more severe at higher speeds.

[ram2]

Originally Posted by WRnative

<<A new IIHS study shows that increases in speed limits over two decades have cost 33,000 lives in the U.S. In 2013 alone, the increases resulted in 1,900 additional deaths, essentially canceling out the number of lives saved by frontal airbags that year.>>

Higher speed limits lead to more deaths

This is just deaths. Injuries also are more severe at higher speeds.

IIHS is bogus. IIHS is funded by insurance companies who want lower speed limits for revenue generation reasons (lower speed limits = more tickets = higher insurance premiums).

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by ram2

IIHS is bogus. IIHS is funded by insurance companies who want lower speed limits for revenue generation reasons (lower speed limits = more tickets = higher insurance premiums).

Nothing raises insurance rates more than accidents.

Lower claims and losses is money in the insurance companies' pockets. That's why insurance companies fund the IIHS.

What's bogus are posters who pretend or even actually believe that their ridiculous opinions are facts.

Common sense would tell anyone that higher speeds are more dangerous and any resulting accidents more severe. And common sense is supported by empirical facts.

<<The highway patrol said that there's been a 21 percent increase in crashes on interstate highways where the speed limit has been raised to 70 miles per hour since 2013, The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reported.>>

Rise in crashes linked to higher speed limits on Ohio roads

I suppose you also believe the Ohio Highway Patrol is bogus.

Again, common sense:

<<"Motorists have to understand that as speed (of the car) increases, the reaction time decreases to adjust to conditions such as changing lanes, an object in the road, something falling off a truck or a deer crossing the road," said Lt. Craig Cvetan, the Ohio Highway Patrol's public affairs commander.>>

I once hit a deer on a freeway -- a laggard deer after I dodged most of the small herd. Now I drive much slower at night on freeways during rutting season. I always drive slowly on rural roads in respect of deer. It's a learned behavior of anyone who has had a deer fly into their windshield.

The average Ohio driver has a good chance of hitting a deer during their lifetime.

Ohio drivers' chances of hitting deer are on the rise - News - The Columbus Dispatch - Columbus, OH