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What speed limit?
Texas Department of Transportation poll shows drivers' ideas on speeding differ from law
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas drivers
seem to have a loose interpretation
of speed limits.
According to a poll released
Tliesday by the Texas Department
of Transportation, only 10 percent
say they are speeding when they
drive 10 miles over the speed limit.
That goes up to 20 percent when
talking to men between 16 and 24
years old.
“This means that it’s important
for us to set speed limits that people
will obey and will get in the habit of
obeying,” said Phyllis Chandler, a
department spokesperson.
The study, conducted by the
Savitz Research Center, included a
poll of 500 Texas drivers. Of those,
only half felt they were speeding
when they exceeded posted speed
limits. And 55 percent admitted
“What this says
about Texans is that
they have no regard
for posted speed
limits or the lives
they could take in
an accident”
— Jerry Johns
President
Southwestern Insurance
Information Services
speeding “most or all” of the time.
Jerry Johns, president of the
Southwestern Insurance Informa
tion Service, said the poll mirrors
similar studies and the results are
not surprising.
“What it says about Texans is
that they have no regard for posted
speed limits or the lives they could
take in an accident,” he said.
Johns said the poll may be an in
dication that the state should con
sider lowering speed limits.
“Given these statistics maybe lo
cal police should consider imple
menting a zero tolerance policy for
people exceeding the speed limit,”
he said.
One of the most disturbing re
sults, Chandler said, was that of the
motorists polled who go out drink
ing, only 25 percent use a desig
nated driver. Still, Texans say they
are greatly concerned about drunk
drivers and speeders, the study
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The transportation department
released another study Tuesday
about crashes along Texas highways.
The number of injury crashes in
creased up to 33 percent more than
expected in some places, although
there was no “significant increase”
in fatalities, according to the study.
“Yes, we know that crashes have
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