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Originally Posted by esses
Independent studies correcting for outside factors (drink driving, sleeping, driving under the influence of drugs, etc) shows that speed has zero statistical contribution to accidents on America's freeways. Of course we all also know that the autobahn has no speed limit and has a fraction of the collisions American freeways have. Csaba Csere has published lengthy articles filled with citations in Car and Driver on the subject. There is a lot of literature out there.
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I would love to see these studies. Speed is most definitely a contributing factor. If you remove all accidents with drugs, alcohol, sleeping, etc then you STILL hundreds if not thousands of fatal accidents every year were speeding was a factor. Every street race that kills someone, every teenager speeding with his friends, every BMW owner trying to hit his limiter; all have speed as the major factor. Are you telling me they are ALL drunk/stoned/sleepy?
The only way you can say that speeding has no effect is if you correct for stupidity. But then you wouldn't see speeding and aggressive driving at all.