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Date: 03 Mar 1995 15:36:00 +0100
From: kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
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patron@lib.provo.ut.us wrote on 01.03.95 in <1995Mar1.190633.2078@physc1.byu.edu>:
> An interesting sidelight to this is that (at least in Idaho) the
> traffic fatality rate in terms of deaths PER MILES TRAVELED (not
> total deaths per year) rose significantly for 3 years following
> the lowering of the speed limits. The most significant impact
> of the lower speed limits was that people quit traveling.
Interesting - in Germany, the consistent pattern seems to be that it goes
down with the speed limit.
I guess that says something about differences between Germans and Idaho
residents ...
Kai
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