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Old 08-05-2011, 10:34 PM   #162
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Originally Posted by sebberry View Post
Fair enough, there are other factors that could have caused the collision.

But have you noticed that any time there's a hint of a possibility of speed being a contirbuting factor in a collision, the police, media, etc.. are all over reporting it as a speed-caused collision before the investigation is complete?
Seems to me I commonly hear phrases like "speed-RELATED crash" and "speed may have been A FACTOR"... can't even think of the last time I heard a media report of a crash that claime speed was the ONLY cause of a crash, let alone one that quoted an investigator as pinning in solely on speed. In fact, mention of alcohol (whether claiming it it is or isn't suspected of being a factor) sems to be used WAY more often than attributing crashes solely to speed.
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