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Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal... by sitkack on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:42AM (#23259770)
Speeds could be up due to less traffic density, people even more distracted. Could also be the same base rate suicide by car crash. I'd be interested to know if the fatality rate involving big trucks and passenger vehicles has changed. It could be that the fatality rate per truck mile is a constant independent of the number of passenger vehicles on the road.

With proper data sets, all of this should just fall out.

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Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal... by ken on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:05PM (#23260145)
Speeds are definitely up. There's a "30 mph" road near me with a stretch that's as long and straight and remote as any highway, and even the cops are driving >50mph there now. Normally it's packed (it connects two high-density areas) so you're lucky to get near 30mph.
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Re:Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal... by brewdad on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:50PM (#23260902)
Sounds a bit like my street. It isn't remote, but originally developed as large 2 acre lots with far setbacks. Now a lot of infill has occurred but most homes still sit farther from the road than a typical residential neighborhood, so it feels more rural than it is.

It's signed 25mph. Normal speeds are about 30-35mph. Now, every morning starting about 5:30am, drivers are using it as their own personal drag strip trying to lay down their best 0-60 times.

Police don't really seem to care.

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