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Rural speed limit changes and safety
Authors:R Fieldwick  E J H de Beer
Institution:Safety Engineering Group , National Institute for Transport and Road Research , PO Box 395, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
Abstract:There is little information in the literature on the relation between rural speed and safety. The wide variation in rural speed limits that are applied in different countries tends to confirm that this relation is poorly understood. The changes in fatal, injury and all accidents that followed a change in the rural speed limit in seven countries were regressed against the change in vehicle mean speed. The results showed that speed significantly affects safety and that within certain limits the relation is linear. The regressions indicated that a 1 km/h reduction in speed will reduce all severities of accidents by between 4 and 5%. It is suggested that part of this reduction is due to a change in economic factors.
Keywords:Rural speed limit  mean speed  safety  economic factors
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