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[–] WarGy 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Okay, here's a source: https://www.motorists.org/blog/speed-limits-slower-safer/

Some prudent quotes:

When speed limits are set too low, drivers are forced to travel at a speed that increases their risk of being involved in an accident. The alternative is to travel at the safest (85th percentile) speed and risk a speeding ticket. This is something that many drivers do everyday.

Contrary to popular belief, lower speed limits do not necessarily improve safety. The more uniform the speeds of vehicles in a traffic stream, the less chance there is for conflict and crashes. Posting speed limits lower or higher than what the majority of drivers are traveling produces two distinct groups of drivers: those attempting to observe the speed limit and those driving at a speed they feel is reasonable and prudent. These differences in speeds can result in increased crashes due to tailgating, improper passing, reckless driving, and weaving from lane to lane.

Also, look at some safety statistics on the German Autobahn, a highway system without a speed limit:

The autobahn fatality rate of 1.6 deaths per billion-travel-kilometers compared favorably with the 4.6 rate on urban streets and 6.5 rate on rural roads.

This all comes together to show that speed limits, and hence speeding fines, only make roads more dangerous. Whereas a speed limitless road forces people to observe prevailing driving conditions and other cars' speed, the speed limit divides cars into two separate speed groups causing people to have more crashes.

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[–] 51rH0n3y84d93r 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Looks like he just wanted to shit on you and move on. I suspect a troll. :-/

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[–] 51rH0n3y84d93r 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

This paper exploits the dramatic increase in tickets during the Click-it-or-Ticket campaign to identify the causal impact of tickets on accidents using data from Massachusetts.

Generalization may be fair to question.

This paper examines whether traffic tickets affect road safety as measured by motor vehicle accidents. A naïve OLS regression of accidents on tickets suggests that there is no impact of tickets on accidents. However, an analysis using exogenous variation in the number of tickets issued to identify the causal effect of tickets on road safety gives rise to distinctly different results – tickets in fact lead to fewer motor vehicle accidents. Further, tickets help to reduce non-fatal injuries stemming from motor vehicle accidents. In addition, the heterogeneous impact of tickets suggests that there is scope for intervention, for example, by allocating more resources towards traffic enforcement at night since tickets have a larger impact during nighttime. Also, females appear to be more deterred by traffic law enforcement than men. However, there do not appear to be differences in the impact of tickets on different age groups. Overall, the findings of this paper suggest that as unpopular as traffic tickets are among drivers, motorist behavior does respond to tickets.

No analysis on remote enforcement such as rural highways. IE: The increase in accidents for Montana following the posting of daylight speed limits. I wouldn't consider this conclusive evidence.

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[–] lucifirius ago 

That escalated rather quickly.