[B’ Spokes: Just to note the speed limit around Hopkins is 35 mph with many, many drivers doing 45 mph. The following is why enforcing speed limits is important.]
by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog
Get hit by a car traveling 20 miles per hour, and the odds are 19 to 1 that you, the pedestrian, will live to see another walk around the block. … And if a driver hits you at 40 miles per hour, there’s almost a nine in ten chance that you won’t survive.
Image: UK DOT/The Greater Marin
Yet when people die in traffic on local streets designed for vehicle speeds of 40 mph or higher, the conditions that produced a potentially fatal situation in the first place are rarely discussed.
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