By Jo Craven McGinty Close Jo Craven McGinty Jan. 8, 2021 5:30 am ET Last year, stay-at-home orders to combat Covid-19 cleared the roads of congestion. Fewer competing vehicles should have made driving safer—but instead, the rate of fatal crashes climbed as unimpeded speed demons put the pedal to the metal.
Historically, economic downturns have led to fewer vehicle miles traveled as well as lower rates of motor-vehicle deaths, but last year took a different turn. “On less-congested roads, you get fewer collisions, but the collisions you do have are more severe,” said Bob Pishue, an analyst with INRIX, a company that studies traffic patterns.
The California Highway Patrol issued 2,493 citations for driving more than 100 mph in the first month of the lockdown, from March 19 to April 19, compared with 1,335 in the same period the previous year.
EthicalSkeptic
Responsible people stay home. Atavistic motherfuckers roam.
Stay home. Stay off the roads. Stay healthy. Stay sane. If you can! Don’t NEED ANY reason to need an ambulance, or a hospital. Read the definition of “essential” (if necessary). Make way for the TRUE essential people. And SLOW DOWN!!!
Looking forward to self driving cars.
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Wrong! Do children write stories now? Cops dampened on traffic stops except for more aggressive violators. Also cops were home sick or caring for sick family members or children not in school. Everyone knew this.
I believe it. I hit 120mph a few times late March last year before they set us up to work from home. Was one of the only cars on the road at that time and we used to be TF out!!
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Former Phoenix, AZ police here in Puerto Vallarta divided into two groups, both after the money defrauded here by their elders.
To many speeders.
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