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Show Speed Causes Accidents California recently increased its automobile speed limit from 40 tc 45 miles per hour. Highway officials offi-cials of that Slate feel that the Increase has resulted in a greater number of accidents and deaths. "Motorists should bear in mine." says the statician of that Department, Depart-ment, ' that increasjne the speed limit from 40 to 45 miles an houi was increasing the rate an automobile auto-mobile travels from 58 feet per second to 66 feet per second. Thi.' is a tremendously important factor fac-tor when an emergency arises." "Practically all the deaths which occured in these accidents can b traced to fast driving," he stated. "When two cars traveling at 50 o. 60 miles an hour come together, somebody is going to get killed. A collision at 25 miles an hour may mean little more than dented fenders, or broken glass." |