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Originally Posted by sebberry
Between 2004 and 2008:
Alberta Speed Report
12.9% of all collisions involved drivers travelling at an "unsafe speed".
Improper actions of drivers travelling at unsafe speed
27.9% were following too closely
Alcohol was involved in over half of all fatal collisions where speed was a factor.
Alcohol was involved in over 20% of injury collisions where speed was a factor
Conclusion: Deal with the tailgating, deal with the drinking and you'll prevent a significant number of speed related collisions. Why nobody seems interested in doing that makes no sense to me.
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I'm a little confused.... Speed is mentioned in everyone of the factors you mentioned in this post. I would say tail gating is caused by someone that wants to go faster than the driver in front of them. So, catching speeders should prevent this..right? You are going after the 72% of wrong doers instead of 28%....seems like a better use of resources!
Alcohol was only involved in 20% of the accidents where "speed was a factor". So that means that 80% of the accidents were caused only as "speed as a factor". So, catching speeders is going after the majority cause of accidents....seems like a better use of resources!
