Speed and Accidents
* Sunday’s story, “Radar’s the Ticket,” (Valley Briefing, Dec. 14) was misleading.
Contrary to what the police officer in the story said and what the writer implied, speed does not cause more accidents.
The safest roads in the world, the German autobahn, have no speed limits outside of urban areas.
The decline in fatalities reported is not the result of crackdowns on speeding, as is casually . . . implied by the article, but rather the result of stiffer drunk-driving enforcement and safety advances in today’s cars, which have ABS brakes, air bags, and side-impact protection that the cars of even a few years ago did not have.
Law enforcement should admit they’re only writing more tickets to increase revenues, not promote safety. Your reporters, for their part, should educate themselves before reporting misleading information to the public.
JONAS M. GRANT
Van Nuys
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