One Statistic Can Strengthen Support For Traffic Safety Laws
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
The public supports most traffic safety laws. They routinely defy cell phone laws, believing that they should be pulled over for driving recklessly, not for having a cell phone, and they defy speed limits - but nothing like when the onerous national 55 MPH speed limit was forced on society - yet for the most part, road safety laws are obeyed. People stop at stop signs. Yet a new survey shows how to strengthen road laws; quantify the traffic-related injury risks associated with a given law. read more