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Old 03-02-2007, 12:01 AM
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Default Re: Speeding Cameras

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Speed doesn't kill

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Yeah, a driver driving at 100 miles an hour is no more likely to lose control than one driving at 10 mile an hour. Not only that, but if they both DO lose control, they'll cause the same amount of damage.

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I just took a drivers safety course (thanks speeding tickets), and found out that speed is the #1 factor in determining the likelyhood of a fatality in an accident. This is common sense. If you crash going 35, its very rare someone will be killed.

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I can't help being a complete nit here, but speed doesn't kill, it's the deceleration in the crash that causes the damage that ends up killing you. If speed killed, getting on a plane that travels many times the speed of a car would be suicide. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] Ok, that's all the nitting I will do I promise.

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You can't rapidly decelerate without going fast to begin with. Nobody is actually suggesting that going fast is inherently going to harm anyone, but the fact is the faster you go the more potential deceleration forces you're facing.
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