Article says he was SPEEDING 4098

Here:

"Speed and the Incidence of Crashes In a landmark study of speed and crashes involving 10,000 drivers on 600 miles (970 kilometers) of rural highways, Solomon (1964) found a relationship between vehicle speed and crash incidence that is illustrated by a U-shaped curve. Crash rates were lowest for travel speeds near the mean speed of traffic, and increased with greater deviations above and below the mean. The estimated travel speed from the accident records were compared to the speeds measured at representative sites within each study section. The comparisons showed that crash-involved drivers were over-represented in both high- and low- speed categories of the speed distribution.

Crash-involvement rates decreased with increasing speeds up to 65 mi-h (105 km-h), then increased at higher speeds. Further, Solomon reported that the results of his study showed that "low speed drivers are more likely to be involved in accidents than relatively high speed drivers." Cirillo (1968) in a similar analysis of 2,000 vehicles involved in daytime crashes on interstate freeways confirmed Solomon's results, extending the U-shaped curve to interstate freeways, as illustrated in figure 1. The analysis was limited to crashes involving two or more vehicles traveling in the same direction."

Note the graph. Note that the lowest incidence of accidents actually occurs for people traveling slightly *above* the median speed.

IOW, people traveling 10mph slower than the speed limit should be prosecuted as more dangerous to safety than people traveling 10mph faster.

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