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Originally Posted by Bear Lover
If you click the link and count the posts you will find 25, not 50. Posts are being deleted! Are you just trying to confuse the issue by saying 50?
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You're kidding right ? I'm trying to confuse the issue by saying there are most posts in the "dirty laundry list" ?? See my reply to FJ below. Again I see 51 URLs which reference 50 different posts of which I can't see 3 or 4. Are you clicking on those URLs in the OSO post or those URLs listed by FJ ? I believe there is some error in how those were copied and pasted into his post. They don't work for me from his post.
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Originally Posted by Bear Lover
The accidents mentioned show that speed is dangerous, speed kills. There is no way to "solve the safety problem", HB162 is just one step in the right direction.
Read the link below. It's a US Coast Guard report. It lists speed as the #4 reason for accidents!
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I have read that report and the prior one and there's also one for 2004 available online as well. Perhaps you should read page 41 which lists fatalities by speed. For the accident reports that list speed, only 4% of the fatalities were due to speeds above 40 mph. Now they don't breakdown what percentage of that 4% were due to collisions (ostensibly the reason for HB-162) and what % was due to to single boat mishaps. Care to guess from the OSO posts you've highlighted which is the predominate number ? This is why many opposing HB-162 see it (chance of being run over due to high speed) as a non-issue. I have a somewhat in-between view where I can see there can be too high a speed, it's just a lot higher than HB-162's 45 mph.