AP
“Summer is an incredibly dangerous time. And it culminates with Labor Day, that last hurrah,” said Pam Shadel Fischer of the Governors Highway Safety Association.
Traffic data indicates the higher death toll was related to higher average speeds in conjunction with more of those on the roads driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol and a slight decline in seatbelt use.
Motorists do not seem to be slowing down.
“People are flying down the roads,” Maine State Police Cpl. Doug Cropper said of summer traffic on Interstate 95. “It’s just ridiculous.” More
well as long as they all were wearing masks.
People on our country roads are driving too fast and angry.
They’re fangry.
Two words… Cell Phones
Oh, and driving tests have become virtual.
Wait…what!!!???
Illustr8r, I smell a new film franchise!
I was on interstate I90 yesterday in NY and drivers were going 25+ miles over the posted limit. It was Sunday and I didn’t see anyone pulled over by police but did see digital billboards saying “speed kills” every few miles. Maybe the police have been de-funded by Cuomo, and the signs are their low priced replacements.
People drive stupid fast in apelanta.
Maybe the speed kills signs are about amphetamines and meth. Who knows anymore.
The explanation is perfectly clear to me, “The Ferguson effect”. Cops are quitting or retiring, the ones left have circled the wagons and collectively have decided that they are not going to pro-active police, period. Arrests are down, citations are down, even public contacts are down.
There used to be a certain pride about protecting “their beat”, not anymore, the cops are giving up the streets because it is now too risky for them to do their jobs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqTKZgEW8pM
As those small wheels turn
Fifty miles to the gallon
And their knees on their chest
They’re gonna save enough gas
For all of the rest
In a Yugo
Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
They’re squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride…
And as the crowds drive past a little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas
But they didnt get far
In a Yugo
And as they’re trapped inside
At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo….
How do you double the price of a Yugo? You fill it up with gas. And day come equipped with Dago tires. Dago thru rain, dago thru mud, dago thru snow and when dago flat, dago WOP, WOP, WOP!
The revenue will come from miles traveled not speeding tickets. D.U.I. and Wild driving deaths will increase up to the point that law makers little prince and princesses are killed but not killing others.
“Speed Kills” signs are about as effective as “Gun Free Zone” signs!
Just ask Jackass Joe.
Aggressive driving and texting!
9 out of 10 times when you encounter an asshole on the road it’s an asshole on a cell’ ‘phone. They drive like drunks.
I was walking downtown some years ago, noticed a parked Yugo all locked up with one of those ‘Club’ anti-theft gizmos on the steering wheel. I broke the window and stole it. (The Club)
“9 out of 10 times when you encounter an asshole on the road”
Yea, they’re brain damaged Libs who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.