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**VIAGRA-VIAGRA** · 12-20-2006, 07:19 PM

This may come as shock to you but speeding does not always result in a fatality.

No shock at all. Had you taken the time to read my post properly, you would have noticed that I didn't make any mention of fatal accidents whatsoever. I admit that this was mainly just me being mean and trying to bait someone, but being serious for a second, there are plenty of accidents that leave a person alive but with difficulties communicating for themselves. Accidents can still be extremely serious without anyone being killed.

"The latest government report on road accidents shows that less than 5% of accidents involve vehicles exceeeding the speed limit.
The report ridicules the long proclaimed lie than 'one third' of accidents are caused by 'speeding'. This is a fairly useless statistic in the context of talking about serious injury or fatality due to traffic accidents. Speeding may well account for less than 5% of total accidents, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a significant proportion of that "less than 5%" required more than a plaster on the knee to treat their injuries. I tried to find the article you referenced to see if they had any statistics about the proportion of more serious accidents related to speeding, but you didn't link the specific article that you took the quote from, and I couldn't bring myself to search the badly written, badly designed site.

12-20-2006, 07:19 PM	#21
VIAGRA-VIAGRA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 528 Senior Member	This may come as shock to you but speeding does not always result in a fatality. No shock at all. Had you taken the time to read my post properly, you would have noticed that I didn't make any mention of fatal accidents whatsoever. I admit that this was mainly just me being mean and trying to bait someone, but being serious for a second, there are plenty of accidents that leave a person alive but with difficulties communicating for themselves. Accidents can still be extremely serious without anyone being killed. "The latest government report on road accidents shows that less than 5% of accidents involve vehicles exceeeding the speed limit. The report ridicules the long proclaimed lie than 'one third' of accidents are caused by 'speeding'. This is a fairly useless statistic in the context of talking about serious injury or fatality due to traffic accidents. Speeding may well account for less than 5% of total accidents, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a significant proportion of that "less than 5%" required more than a plaster on the knee to treat their injuries. I tried to find the article you referenced to see if they had any statistics about the proportion of more serious accidents related to speeding, but you didn't link the specific article that you took the quote from, and I couldn't bring myself to search the badly written, badly designed site.
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