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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happened between 2022 and 2023?  Isn't that when all the new safety measures were introduced?[/quote]

The data that have been posted are not being represented correctly. These are not the numbers of people killed on DC streets by speeding drivers because no such data exists.

The data instead represents the number of people who were killed in a crash where speeding was determined to be the primary cause of the crash.

As most of us know, crashes often have multiple causes. [b]A drunk person may be speeding, swerving recklessly, not paying attention, lose control of their vehicle, fail to yield, and kill someone. Take away any one of those factors and there is no crash or at least no fatality.[/b]

A couple of years ago, a pedestrian was killed on a crosswalk near where I live. The pedestrian was knocked over a hundred feet and it seems very clear as a result that the driver was speeding. But the driver was charged with failing to yield and so that presumably was designated as the primary cause.

This is a long way of making the point that the number of people who have been killed by speeding drivers is not the same as the number of people who were killed in crashes where speeding was deemed to be the primary cause.

Why someone on here wants to intentionally mislead others and minimize the public health hazard posed by speeding, I have no idea. But it is shameful and Jeff really should be deleting those comments.[/quote]

This is completely wrong and awfully offensive to people who've had loved ones killed by drivers who were going the speed limit. [/quote]

I think the issue is that person is misinterpreting studies showing fatalities generally declining with speed. They do decline, but only incrementally and they're talking about averages across large numbers of people. They're definitely not saying you won't die if the car isn't speeding. [/quote]

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/17098/003.cfm

This is not complicated.[/quote]

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