Each Wednesday, we’ll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We’re doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Washington Supreme Court Restricts Car Searches The state constitution in Washington provides its drivers greater […]
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TheNewspaper.com Roundup: April 11, 2012
April 11, 2012 • 0 Comments • Roadblocks, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, TheNewspaper, Yellow Light Duration
Lying Black Boxes And The Truths They Tell
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Last November, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray was out surveying storm damage when his car hit black ice on I-190 and slid off the road. It was just an accident. He was sober and obeying the speed limit and police agreed there was nothing he could have done. Some […]
A Powerful Case By Law Enforcement For Safe And Realistic Speed Limits
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of Driving Freedoms, the NMA’s quarterly member newsletter. The Michigan State Police get it. Not only do they get it, the MSP are instrumental in advocating for it with their state legislators. “It” is the setting of speed limits based on the 85th percentile principle, something […]
Speed Limit 50 Except When We Don’t Like It
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Vermont speed law is simpler than most. The speed limit is 50 except as posted following an engineering and traffic investigation. (23 VSA 1007, 1081) City officials in Burlington decided the law does not align with their wishes. They decreed the speed limit in town is 25 mph except […]
Speed Up For The Children?
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Last time I suggested we were barking up the wrong tree by quoting statistics for car-pedestrian crash survivability. A 1995 article in the British Medical Journal asked how often people were hurt by cars. “How dangerous is the street?” is a more interesting question than “how dangerous is the […]
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