North Carolina speed management recommendations for action.

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• Creators:
  Thomas, Libby ; Srinivasan, Raghavan ; Hunter, William ; Rodgman, Eric
• Corporate Creators:
  University of North Carolina. Highway Safety Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Fatalities Recommendations Speed Statistics Traffic Accidents Traffic Safety
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  North Carolina
• Corporate Publisher:
  North Carolina. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Nearly 5,000 people lost their lives in speeding-related crashes in North Carolina over the past
  
  10 years. Nearly twice as many individuals suffered disabling injuries. Among those killed were
  
  131 children younger than age 14, 85 teens aged 14 to 15, and 974 young people aged 16 to 20.
  
  While crashes, fatalities, and injuries have fallen in North Carolina, as throughout the U.S., over
  
  the past decade (Figure 1), more can be done to reduce the risk of serious harm resulting from
  
  inappropriate speed. Although these declines are good news, and North Carolina is to be
  
  commended on this progress, all of the reasons for these declines are not entirely clear.
  
  Engineering safety improvements, graduated driver licensing for young drivers, continuing
  
  safety improvements in vehicles, and other policy changes have all contributed. At the same
  
  time, some of the decrease in the most recent years is attributable to less driving or changes in
  
  the type of driving due to the economic downtown, job losses, and higher fuel prices. In the
  
  latter case, the trends may turn upward again as the economy revives, which, in fact, has
  
  already been observed in 2011 and in early statistics for 2012.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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  urn:sha256:e88e8ecef02f36d51682b0165263cecee1b56a98dd6b97dd447b4eeadb5e71a0
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26677/dot_26677_DS1.pdf
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