Speed Limits

What is the number one cause of traffic accidents, injuries, and fatalities in Texas? Unsafe speed.

The faster you go the more distance it takes to stop. And, the greater the force involved. When speed increases from 40 mph to 60 mph, the energy released in a crash more than doubles, acording to Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (2003). A collision at 60 miles an hour doesn’t have twice the force of a collision at 30 miles an hour – it has 4 times the force.