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Originally Posted by GTO  A whopping 60% of accidents, and 64% of fatalities occur due to overspeeding. |
Out of interest, what exactly constitutes overspeeding - driving over the speed limit? Since we have no dependable means of figuring out what the speed limit is, WHO decides whether the accident occurred on account of overspeeding? Do they ask the driver, or if the passengers if the driver was a fatality, or passers-by?
I wonder what the source of this conclusion is - I for one am quite amazed at the very low incidence of drunken driving in those statistics.
Unless the state traffic police has a defined method of recording accidents and their exact causes AND the implementation of such a process is actually monitored, the statistics published by the cops or other agencies have no meaning whatsoever.