In searching for material from another dabate, I came across this reference to American study in Hansard:
Quote:
The Cato Institute 1999 policy analysis, Speed Doesn't Kill: The Repeal of the 55mph
Speed Limit—that is, in the United States—states that, despite the fact that 33 US states
had raised their speed limits since 1995,
"almost all measures of highway safety show improvement, not more deaths and
injuries . . . Moreover, the average fatality rate even fell in the states that raised
their speed limits".
This conclusion is also supported by a recent 2005 study by another American
academic, Robert O Yowell, who concluded in his study, The Evolution and Devolution
of Speed Limit Law and the Effect on Fatality Rates, that:
"the assertion that speed kills, and more speed kills more, is . . . unfounded".
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