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THE reluctance of state authorities to give full safety credit to the reduced, 55-miJ^-anhour speed limit now ^effect on the roads of Virginia and the nation, is somewhat puzzling.
After reporting that tentative 1974 traffic death figures indicate that statistics will show a rather dramatic reduction in highway deaths, Colonel H. W. Burgess, Superintendent of State Police, went on to sort of pooh-pooh the 55-mile-anhour limit’s role in this reduction. He reeled off a number of 'other factors which he also thought were responsible —increasing use of seat belts, high school driver education courses, less mileage driven, &c., &c.
All of these things may very well have been factors, but most people we know, private motorists and lafw enforcement officials alike, agree that the lower speed limit, which the
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