• Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Going the posted speed limit is not going slow.

    Speed is a leading factor in collisions resulting in serious injuries and death.

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      2 days ago

      Where I live, going the speed limit gets you run off the road. I’m not even exaggerating.

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          17 hours ago

          They tried that for a few years. People went to court to challenge them, overwhelmed the court system, and made it not cost effective to pursue people.

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            32 minutes ago

            Where they winning cases on merit or just so many cases filled that the court could not process the number of cases? I would be interested to read up on that if you had something on that.

            I know of a situation where a municipality had not done the required traffic survey to justify the speed limit. In that case, if challenged in court, tickets get dismissed. One individual knew the law, was constantly cited, kept going to court to get the tickets dismissed. Eventually the individual filed a RICO suit against the government that forced them to do the traffic study, which resulted in the speed limit being raised.