So far this year in Missouri, there have been almost 700 deaths on the highways. Of the fatal injuries on Missouri’s roads in 2012, 65% of them were not wearing safety belts. Possibilities are extremely high that they were also speeding, or the automobiles that struck them were doing this. Many people who are killed are doing nothing wrong, but are hit by a vehicle driven by someone exhausted, drunk, texting or speeding—sometimes, sadly, more than one of those.
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Traffic and the Police Force
In research carried out to check which strategies reduced speed best in work areas, fake radar drones that were meant to set off police radar alarms were tested against other techniques like transportable rumble strips and radar speed display signs to see which slowed drivers down more. Because only folk with radar detectors could be influenced by the drones, they didn’t compare to the driver feedback signs. Actually the signs not only caused the greatest speed reductions overall, they slowed down the biggest number of drivers.
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