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37,000 lives could have been saved in the last 25 years with lower speed limits

April 8, 2019

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says over five precent of deaths on the roads are due to higher speed limits.

In 1995 the US Congress removed federal regulation of speed limits, and in the years since, they have crept up across the country. In Texas, limits are now as high as 85 MPH; 41 states have 70 as the limit and 6 states have 80 MPH.

Now Charles Farmer, Vice President for research at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has updated the data on highway deaths and it is pretty shocking.

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