Speed don't kill, idiot drivers do!
Originally posted by Shawn on 02/26/2008 at 12:52:18
There’s no good data or study to link accidents to speed. So far it’s just assumption by most people, not scientifically proven. Besides, it’s a good source of revenues for local government who enforce their speed limit, so there’s an incentive to keep it that way. But I believe, eventually people will come to their senses and throw it out the window.
Originally posted by Jackie on 02/28/2008 at 18:22:47
yeah right you wish!
Originally posted by Poor Neighborhood on 04/07/2007 at 16:21:37
I live in downtown Honolulu where the jaywalk rules forbid pedestrians to cross a street outside of a marked crosswalk. While this rule helps in many occasions, it doesn’t apply at my neighborhood, where the 2-narrow-lane road is about 500 yards long without any crosswalk. So to cross the street you’ll have to go all the way to intersection at either end of the road.
I don’t believe anybody are in the mid-part of this road would go all the way to the end, just to cross the street, then walk all the way back to the middle part of the road, with a total distance of 500 yards! That doesn’t make sense to me, especially when you don’t have time and don’t need exercise.
Now, suppose somebody who values his/her life so much as to obey this law, the question is whether it’s safer to cross the road at the intersection or at mid-part without cross walk. My experience and common sense tell me that it’s more dangerous to do so at the intersection!
Why? Because the fact that you’re walking in the crosswalk doesn’t mean that cars will avoid you. There’re lots of bad drivers nowadays that you can’t rely on them. Walking within the crosswalk only entitles you to a better legal status, not safety. There are a lot of traffics at intersection right next to pedestrians on crosswalk, and there’re many vehicles try to turn while you’re crossing. So it’s harder for the pedestrians to avoid accidents. Instead, they depend totally on the drivers.
On the other hand, crossing the street near the middle part gives you plenty of room and distance. If you see a vehicle approaching from far away, you stay out of the road, and only cross the road when it’s completely clear. Now, how can you get hit, if nothing can be fast enough to complete a 200+ yards while you cross the 5-yard road? So unless you’re an extremely slow elderly, there’s no chance any fast car can hit you from that far away.
Originally posted by Speed on 03/28/2007 at 21:22:52
Really? Give me an example that speed don’t kill? Most traffic fatalities are related to speed. So you speed, you die, period!
Originally posted by Jack on 04/04/2007 at 09:55:05
if you mention statistics, those speeders that cause accidents do 30 to 40 mph over the limit, yeah most people lose control at that kind of speed, but most decent folks are well in control with 10-15 mph above limit, can’t blame those