FREE ESSAY ON SPEED LIMITS

SPEED LIMITS

Imagine driving on I-75 as cars race by you at a blink of an eye. You are driving 60 miles
per hour, the speed limit; they must be doing 100 miles per hour or more. This is not an
illusion; this is the reality of driving on a highway. Believe it, it happens everyday.
Cars race down the road at uncontrollable speeds that cause tickets, accidents, and sadly
death. Speed limits are a must for traffic control, for safety in neighborhoods and for
avoidance of collisions.
Traffic control establishes a set of rules and regulations that people rely on to help
avoid collisions and other hazards. With almost 160 million motorists and 3.8 million
miles of public roads in the United States, traffic control on the highways is an
important aspect of daily life. Without the control of speed there would be more
fatalities than we already have now. Speed limits should be obeyed. A motorist going too
slow could cause an accident. When everyone is traveling at the speed limit, a car comes
up going 40 mph; if you break everyone will, too, perhaps causing a collision. Motorists
depend on traffic control to avoid collisions and travel safely to their destination.
Our neighborhoods need control of speed, too. Accidents not only happen on the highway,
but also on residential streets, with the speed limits being 25 mph. Motorists are
exceeding these limits as I speak. They would be unable to stop quickly enough for
pedestrians, possibly swerving out of control and hitting a house or another car. My
street has been monitored, by the city, due to this excessive speeding. The city of St.
Clair Shores is trying to make the motorists aware of their speeding by posting a digital
sign, which posts their current speed. Without a legal speed limit in residential areas,
people would drive in excess of 25 mph all the time. We need this wild speeding
controlled soon before something bad happens.
Death! It's scary to think about that especially if it happens to someone you know. The
single greatest cause of accidents in the United States is the automobile. In 1991, the
U. S., automobile accidents were responsible for about 49.4 percent of all accidental
deaths. That is not all from speeding, but it would be higher without speed limits.
Motorists who exceed speed limits swerve in and out of lanes, which cause them to lose
control of their vehicle. When seeing these cars on the news, speeding and getting into
car accidents, you see the picture of the car and it is smashed. It leaves a fatal
memory.
Speed limits are a must for traffic control, for safety in neighbor hoods and for
avoidance of collisions. Accidents are unintedtional and unforeseen, but result in
personal injury or property damage. Let's try to avoid this by obeying the limits.