IIHS: Speed limit increases in US caused 33,000 deaths over 20 years

Green Car Congress
By mmillikinApr 14, 2016, 5:00 am119 pts
A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study shows that increases in speed limits over two decades have cost 33,000 lives in the US. In 2013 alone, the increases resulted in 1,900 additional deaths, essentially canceling out the number of lives saved by frontal airbags that year. Charles Farmer,…

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