{"id":8528,"date":"2019-04-10T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8528"},"modified":"2019-04-11T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:10:04","slug":"speed-limit-increases-connected-to-37000-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/speed-limit-increases-connected-to-37000-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed limit increases connected to 37,000 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Increasing maximum speed limits over the past 25 years has cost nearly 37,000 lives, including more than 1,900 in 2017 alone, according to a new study by the <a aria-label=\"Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iihs.org\/iihs\/news\/desktopnews\/speed-limit-increases-are-tied-to-37-000-deaths-over-25-years\" target=\"_blank\">Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research, an update of a 2016 analysis,\ncalls attention to the trade-off between a few minutes of saved travel time and\nthe increased risk of fatalities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAbout 10,000 people a year die in\nspeed-related crashes,\u201d said IIHS President David Harkey. \u201cWe can reduce this\ntoll through effective, high-visibility enforcement and traffic engineering\nmeasures. Reasonable speed limits also have a crucial role to play, as our new\nstudy demonstrates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maximum speed limits are set at state level,\nand they have been increasing since the mid-1990s. Today, 41 states have\nmaximum speed limits of 70 mph or higher while six states have 80 mph limits. Drivers\nin Texas can legally drive 85 mph on some roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSpeeding has become almost a forgotten\nissue in traffic safety discussions, and clearly we\u2019re losing any sense of\nlimits,\u201d said Darrin Grondel, Chair of Governors Highway Safety Association\u2019s Executive\nBoard and Director of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission. \u201cThis gathering\nis an exceptional opportunity to craft the building blocks of a comprehensive\nspeed management program that we can translate into action to really make a\ndifference in our work of saving lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the new study, Charles Farmer, IIHS Vice President for Research and Statistical Services, analyzed the effect of changes in the maximum posted speed limit in every state from 1993 to 2017. He found that a 5 mph increase in the maximum speed limit was associated with an 8% increase in the fatality rate on interstates and freeways \u2014 the roads most directly affected by changes to the maximum speed limit \u2014 and a 3 percent increase on other roads. In total, over the 25-year study period, there were 36,760 more deaths \u2014 13,638 on interstates and freeways \u2014 and 23,122 on other roads \u2014 than would have been expected if maximum speed limits hadn\u2019t changed over that time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing maximum speed limits over the past 25 years has cost nearly 37,000 lives, including more than 1,900 in 2017 alone, according to a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The research, an update of a 2016 analysis, calls attention to the trade-off between a few minutes of saved travel time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}