Miracle Manor Neighborhood

Keep Kids Alive Drive 25

Fast Facts About Speeding

Speeding in residential neighborhoods represents the single greatest complaint issue to police departments and city council representatives throughout the U.S. (KKAD25)
Most speeders in your neighborhood live in your neighborhood. (KKAD25)
It is not unusual for speeders to be clocked in excess of 40 mph (and even 50 mph on occasion) in 25-mph zones. (KKAD25)
Speeding extends the distance necessary to stop a vehicle.
*At 20 mph the total stopping distance needed is 69 feet.
*At 30 mph, the distance needed is 123 feet.
*At 40 mph, the distance needed is 189 feet which may not be enough distance and time for you to avoid hitting an object or person on the road (USDOT, NHSTA)
At night, when you can see only as far as your headlight (160 feet in front of your vehicle), the situation worsens.
The effectiveness of restraint devices like air bags and safety belts, and vehicular construction features such as crumple zones and side member beams decline as impact speed increases. (USDOT, NHSTA)
Speed, defined as exceeding the posted speed limit or traveling too fast for the conditions, is cited as a contributing factor in approximately 30% of fatal crashes. (NHSTA)
Based on the “General Estimates System” database of police-reported accidents, incapacitating pedestrian injuries rose from 18.2 percent in 25 mile-per-hour zones to 23.4 percent in 30 mile-per-hour zones. Pedestrian fatalities spiked respectively from 1.8 percent to 5.4 percent. This fatality rate represents a 3-fold increase just for that 5-mph increase. This is significant, especially if your family member or neighbor is injured or killed.

Speeding (From the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

Speeding -- exceeding the posted speed limit or driving too fast for conditions -- is one of the most prevalent factors contributing to traffic crashes. The economic cost to society of speeding-related crashes is estimated by NHTSA to be $28.9 billion per year. In 1997, speeding was a contributing factor in 30 percent of all fatal crashes, and 13,036 lives were lost in speeding-related crashes.

In 1997, 626,000 people received minor injuries in speeding-related crashes. An additional 75,000 people received moderate injuries, and 41,000 received critical injuries in speeding-related crashes (based on methodology from The Economic Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes 1994, NHTSA).

In 1997, 86 percent of speeding-related fatalities occurred on roads that were not Interstate highways.

For drivers involved in fatal crashes, young males are the most likely to be speeding. The proportion of all crashes that are speeding-related decreases with increasing driver age. In 1997, 37 percent of the male drivers 15 to 20 years old who were involved in fatal crashes were speeding at the time of the crash.

Alcohol and speeding are clearly a deadly combination. Speeding involvement is prevalent for drivers involved in alcohol-related crashes. In 1997, 43 percent of the intoxicated drivers (BAC = 0.10 or higher) involved in fatal crashes were speeding, compared with only 14 percent of the sober drivers (BAC = 0.00) involved in fatal crashes.

Pedestrians (From the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

In 1997, 77,000 pedestrians were injured and 5,307 were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, representing 2 percent of all the people injured in traffic crashes and 13 percent of all traffic fatalities.

On average, a pedestrian is killed in a motor vehicle crash every 99 minutes, and one is injured every 7 minutes.

Alcohol involvement -- either for the driver or the pedestrian -- was reported in 45 percent of the traffic crashes that resulted in pedestrian fatalities. Of the pedestrians involved, 29.5 percent were intoxicated. The intoxication rate for the drivers involved was only 12.5 percent. In 5.3 percent of the crashes, both the driver and the pedestrian were intoxicated.
23% of fatalities occur on local roadways, such as residential streets.
This translates into 0.86 fatalities per million miles traveled. This is the highest rate of fatalities of all road classifications (Interstate, Arterials, Collectors, Locals) due to the fact that local roads make up 68.6% of total public road mileage. (Statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation)