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Even when equipped with the safest cars on the road, these casualties occurred at much lower speeds than in head-on collisions, with passenger fatality and serious injury typically occurring at 50 km/h (~31 mph) in side impact collisions, as opposed to 70 km/h (~43 mph) for frontal impacts. [2]
Clarence Thomas Bibbins of Milwaukee, who was pronounced dead at the scene, had been T-boned by a motorist driving about 80 mph through an intersection with a stop sign, according to a report from ...
Two people are dead after a car crash in east Kansas City early Sunday morning, according to police. A gray Dodge Hornet was speeding south on Jackson Avenue around 3:43 a.m., when it failed to ...
As of May 15, 2017, 41 states have maximum speed limits of 70 mph (113 km/h) or higher. 18 of those states have 75 miles per hour (121 km/h) speed limits or higher, while 7 states of that same portion have 80 mph (129 km/h) speed limits, with Texas even having an 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) speed limit on one of its toll roads.
“If the roadway is engineered to have a speed limit of 30 mph, then the motorist would have to lower their speed to 25 if children are present,” Olsen wrote.
City police regularly conceal their patrol cars behind trees along Arizona Highway 82 where motorists enter the city's outskirts. The legal speed limit drops in a short space from 55 mph to 30 mph, leading to some drivers who are not alert to be caught. The minimum fine for exceeding the posted speed limit even by 1 mph is $146.
City streets are 25 mph, county roads are 50 mph, and state highways are 60 mph. That’s the starting point, but you’ve driven on roads with other speed limits.
[1] [2] [3] 200 MPH Club A lifetime "membership" awarded by the SCTA or another sanctioning body or circuit to any driver who drives over a specified distance at a minimum speed of 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), while also breaking a record. [4] Membership can stretch over from the more exclusive 300 to the elite 400. [5]