Which Traffic Laws For Traffic Highway Safety?

Enforce Right Traffic Laws For Real Traffic Highway Safety; Dah!

From the Radio Free Oklahoma Blog we get what’s wrong with today’s traffic law enforcement. Here the blog’s author introduces the concept of fraudulent citation writing (i.e., primarily for government revenue) by quoting Chad Dornsife:

“ Today, more than 90% of traffic violations issued; and the
majority of traffic stops, have no factual foundation from
A safety perspective.”

The point is; most enforcement is aimed at enforcing speed limits that are simply not designed to minimize traffic accidents. In fact, most of today’s speed limits are set via politics instead of based on sound traffic engineering principles (See Best Highway Safety Practices web site). In other words, speed limits are mostly lower than engineers want because “we the people” usually think lower is better.

But there is some real negative here.

First, drivers become very cynical about safe driving laws because they know the police are enforcing laws, not for safety, but for income.

Second, and more important, enforcing the wrong speed limits does not minimize traffic accidents. We keep having 42,000 deaths and tens of millions of injuries on our roads every year.

So, what are the right traffic laws to enforce for effective traffic highway safety? Please SADD and MADD members visit our web site for more information on how to eliminate traffic crashes at: WWW.StopCarCrashes.com

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