[Dan Owens]

"As a volunteer ambulance driver, I see accident after accident cause by mothers reaching into the back seat to cuff a kid, people jerking the wheel because they ran onto the rumble strip and consequently rolled their SUVs, blowouts in overloaded SUVs from 15-psi tires and an elderly couple trying to do a U-turn on the New York State Thruway across traffic through a gap in the center divider, to name four recent ones. But none from sheer speed. "

Go to any local high school in the US and I'm sure you'll find more than your share of stories about speed and death. Yeah you can attribute each and every accident to something else, inexperience, alcohol, drugs or any number of other factors but I'll bet you that 80% also involve speeding. There isn't any excuse for speeding on the highway. If you don't like the limits talk to the politicians. Don't break the law though and then claim no foul when you're caught just because the road would support a higher speed or you're a better driver or everyone else does it. Once you lose a loved one or relative or take someone's life in a situation like this you might have a different outlook.