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Don Audette, a local authority on traffic calming who has worked with the Route 50 Corridor study, said, “There are other roads here which also have too high a speed limit. Can we have a standard at 45 mph or have some awareness campaign to let people know they must drive slowly on these roads?”
Mr. Moore said that with more and more people on the roads now the chances for accidents has increased proportionately and that he and VDOT encourage and support driver education beginning with driver education in the schools. He added that perhaps driver education programs in the schools could be expanded to better educate young people about dangerous situations they will face on the roads once they begin driving.
The number of traffic fatalities in the state has risen 25 percent since last year according to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles.
The Virginia Commonwealth University Transportation Safety Training Center has found that an increase in speed affects the severity of the crash. A 20 percent increase in speed produces a 44 percent increase in the impact that must be absorbed by a vehicle and its passengers if there is a crash.
93.8%