JBee
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The problem with that statistic, is that if it's speeding related, it's always speeding that gets counted first, but not the drinking that causes speeding in the first place. Just like the redonkulous flu claims of 2020, where if you get hit by a bus with the flu, you died of the flu and not the bus.
Now go and have a look at German autobahn statistics per 1000, versus urban and non-autobahn. Then note how the autobahns are mostly speed limit free, with active limits for conditions, like rain, fog and snow, so people know when to slow down.
As I've said before, somewhat in jest, it's not the speed that kills you, it's the impact of hitting something. So if you build the roads and intersections accordingly, for good higher speed traffic flow, you actually end up with a lower chance of a impact, resulting in less speed related fatalities. In particular for long distance travel, driver alertness also plays a roll, and for most the limited visual stimulation of low speed cruise ends up with fatigue, and also fatalities. Whereas a 20% or so extra velocity often results in more concentration, if you aren't under the influence.
There's another benefit to speed, and that it increases the average speed of traffic on the road, that allows more traffic to use the same road. So instead of building ridiculous 6-8lane freeways that are parking lots because of how many feeders there are, you intentionally build faster moving roads and can do the same amount of traffic with less than half the lanes. Plus everyone is happy because they get to where they want to go at a normal travel speed. I have yet to meet, or know of someone that wants to be in a traffic jam.
It's all about traffic flow, and that is average speed across the fleet.
