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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Younger me would have been pissed at this idea, even if it's only residential streets. As I've gotten older I've certainly mellowed out my feeling about having to get everywhere as fast as possible. It's not worth the stress, and having seen the effects of a person vs car up close through a friend's struggles with recovery from that crash, I can't deny the facts and science behind it. We need to be more careful, and since we aren't doing that, they need to force us.
It's a small step forward in a more gradual shift to safer roads. It's too bad we can't make a better jump (ie. passive speed control in road design) but that costs a lot more money than changing the speed limit on residential streets.
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What is the Science you've seen behind it?
the data I've seen suggest we need better crossing controls, better awareness of pedestrian/vehicle right of way, and better enforcement surrounding illegal turns. Those problems are causing the overwhelming majority of incidents, and the ratios carry across injury, non-injury and fatal.
So well I believe that high velocity crashes are more dangerous, I am not convinced their is a causal relations between speed and the number of severe injuries.