Traffic Tickets Save Lives

[Theophylact]

Oh, but it's a Stanford University study, and Stanford's in California, isn't it? And it's in collaboration with the University of Toronto, and you can't trust those Canadians, can you? Gee, life is easy when all you have to consider is the source...

[no1_vern]

IF EVERYONE were to drive slower than the speed limit fewer accidnts would happen.

How lame are these studies?? Of course if everyone would slow down fewer accidents would happen. That is like the study that said if no one made love out of wedlock there would be no unwed mothers.

Can I get a collective


DUH!!

Here??


Edit:
To the studies not to theophact for bringing this to our attention!

[Bones1]

It's not the fact that speeders cause the most dammage it's untrained and stupid (distracted) drivers that cause the most dammage.

I saw a collision today a car was making a left hand turn into the 7-11 and some guy piled into the car. I was right behind him and thought "he's waiting to turn you didn't see him right in front of you with his signal light on and brake lights going? Stupid" and then he looked shocked like "What happened?"

I think if everyone would pay more attention on what's going on in front of them instead of looking what's on the sidewalks or trying to punch in the phone number of your buddy, less of this would happen.

I think with all driving tests (which I'd like to see everybody go through this every 5 years) or with all tickets you should be fined for your own stupidity or the cop that stops you should be able to slap some sense into you.

I've seen so many bad drivers... Running stop signs, not yeilding the way and generally showing off.

Driving is a privilege not a right.

[no1_vern]

Hi Bones,
I have no doubt at all that there are people who dont pay attention to their driving and cause many accidents.

Really, my little riff was the fact that someone paid this college professor to make the study on if handing out speeding tickets would help save lives. The study was a for-gone conclusion. I could have told them that it would without the study.

[SeanC]

Tickets work for some people... They become so scared afterward (especially if it's their first ticket) that they drive sensibly. Although if you have chronic speeders, no amount of tickets is going to change anything. If people were to loose their license AND have their car impounded for say 1 month after having three consecutive speeding tickets that might get to them. Lack of transportation and the cost of getting your car back at the end of the month MIGHT put some sense into people.

Sean

[Telexen]

I drive FAR from sensibly...I've only been driving for 3 years now, but I've never been in an accident, and I've gotten only one ticket.

[no1_vern]

Thats the whole point Telexen. If you recieved a speeding ticket to the tune of, say, 150.00 EACH TIME you were speeding, you would stop speeding. Dont worry, the fact that you havent had an accident will change shortly if you dont slow down.

I sincerely hope you dont hurt someone else when that happens.

[Mike]

Just because they speed doesn't mean that they will be in an accident. I have known people in their 20's that drive recklessly and haven't been close to an accident. I am a firm believer that people need to stop putting on make up, stop talking on cell phones, and stop trying to read the map and simply drive their vehicle.

Speeding tickets aren't high enough now? In Michigan I got a ticket and it was reduced to 5 over and it was like $85. That's not good enough for you?

I also believe that it depends on where you are speeding. Obviously speeding in a school zone during school hours may not be the best of ideas...

[Telexen]

Originally posted by Mike
Just because they speed doesn't mean that they will be in an accident. I have known people in their 20's that drive recklessly and haven't been close to an accident. I am a firm believer that people need to stop putting on make up, stop talking on cell phones, and stop trying to read the map and simply drive their vehicle.

Speeding tickets aren't high enough now? In Michigan I got a ticket and it was reduced to 5 over and it was like $85. That's not good enough for you?

I also believe that it depends on where you are speeding. Obviously speeding in a school zone during school hours may not be the best of ideas...

I agree...if ANYTHING it's the people going to slow causing a hazard...people get in accidents because they don't pay attention...not because they go fast.

[no1_vern]

Originally posted by Telexen


I agree...if ANYTHING it's the people going to slow causing a hazard...people get in accidents because they don't pay attention...not because they go fast.

I disagree. Paying attention to what is going on is only one of the many factors every driver needs to be aware of.

If you are following a person slow enough you will obviously have time to

1. stop reading the newspaper/map(or calling your girlfriend on your cell, tweezing your eyebrows, putting makeup on or off, changing into the new worksuit, etc),

2. realize you need to stop before you hit the person in front of you,

3. Actually press on the brake(or if going too fast to stop in time maneuver around the person ahead of you),

4. have enough time to tell them what lousey drivers they are.

Speeding may not seem to be harmful to you but it is. You are far more likely to miss something important in your rush to get somewhere - like the truck merging into your lane without looking, etc. , AND you are more likely to be in an accident if you are speeding.

Just because you HAVE'NT BEEN in an accident don't EVEN THINK that you wont be if you continue. The odds WILL eventually get you.