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What is a safe speed?
Undoubtedly, if you are involved in an accident, the higher your speed the more likely you are to kill or be killed, however, it is not the speed that kills you. It is the sudden reduction of speed or transference of energy on impact that kills.
So, with the information above in mind, maybe the safety slogans should read:
Impact Kills
Now how do we square this idea with a notion of safe speed?
Elsewhere on this web site you will find information about the importance of keeping a safe space around your vehicle. This space is determined by the prevailing conditions and must be great enough for the vehicle to stop safely in the event of easily foreseeable or unexpected occurrences.
Given this information we can now argue that:
Impact Due To Insufficient Space Kills
Given that the space around the vehicle can, for the most part, be controlled by the driver the next logical argument for our slogan is that:
So, how much space? You can kill a toddler at speeds as low as a few miles per hour. Whatever your speed you need to anticipate likely happenings and leave sufficient space to cope … Most accidents happen in built up areas - That is why they have the lowest speed limits; lots of traffic, not much space. In built up areas there are also a lot of soft targets (literally).These 'targets' are called pedestrians. A speed of two or three miles per hour can kill a pedestrian so what do you now understand the term 'Speed Kills' to mean?
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Perhaps one of the biggest speed traps is that which leads drivers into thinking that they pose no danger when they are driving slowly.
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