Critical Highway Safety Information
To All Pennsylvania Drivers:
Contact your Representative and Senator and remind them that 2018 is an election year, and that we ARE paying attention to their votes.
Urge them to VOTE NO on SB 251, authorizing RADAR for municipal police in Pennsylvania. SB 251 is anti-driver and anti-safety legislation.
Traffic laws must conform to reasonable and prudent driver behavior of the super-majority of drivers. 97% of the driving public operate their vehicle in a safe manner. There is no "speeding" crisis. Rather, a highway engineering crisis: failure to follow Pennsylvania law which states that posted speed limits must be set at the 85th Percentile Speed.
90% of posted speed limits in Pennsylvania are 8 to 16 MPH below the safest speed , making it easy to (ticket) steal money from motorists who drive the 85th Percentile Speed, the speed at or below which 85% of vehicles travel, which is the safest speed. Yet the “safety” lobby repeats the falsehood that “EVERYBODY SPEEDS!” in order to put RADAR guns into the hands of the armed tax collectors.
Every police traffic report requires three entries for “cause of accident,” and “excessive speed” is almost always listed as one of the three whether the driver was actually speeding or not: it’s a throw-away entry. This gives NHTSA et al carte blanche, by manipulating their “statistics,” to raise the roof about all those maniacs slaughtering people on the highways, which is a lie.
RADAR is not about safety, RADAR is about raising revenue. RADAR guns are notoriously inaccurate, for instance, clocking trees at 90 MPH, and being unable to distinguish between cars. And claiming that the ticket money doesn’t go to the government is a red herring: it adds up to a lot of money in the end.
Until speed limits are set at the safest speed using proper, time-tested highway engineering, highway safety will not be improved. RADAR guns will only raise money, they will not add to safety.
Tell your Representative and Senator: Don’t give RADAR guns to local police. VOTE NO on SB 251. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Tom McCarey Member, National Motorists Association
www.motorists.org
