Speed limit increases are tied to 37,000 deaths over 25 years

(Click on the image for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study)

• Rising speed limits over the past 25 years have cost nearly 37,000 lives, including more than 1,900 in 2017 alone
• About 10,000 people a year die in speed-related crashes.
• We can reduce this toll through effective, high-visibility enforcement and traffic engineering measures. Reasonable speed limits also have a crucial role to play.
• A 5 mph increase in the maximum speed limit was associated with an 8 percent increase in the fatality rate on interstates and freeways