Which Kills more, Speeding or bad driving?

Question

I know i just asked a similar question, but in retrospect I felt the grammar didn't convey what I really ment.

What i mean is... which is more likely to kill someone? driving too fast, or driving badly?

Answer 1

A bad driver speeding!
Speed kills if your driving out of your capability. And speeding in crappy weather. But probably the most dangerous person on the road today is a driver who is intoxicated and driving under the influence of oral sex

Answer 2

My Dad had a saying about this very issue. He said, "Speed kills but it doesn't cause accidents".

I don't know if that answers your question, I doubt it. I don't think there really is an answer. I think bad driving certainly causes accidents but an accident must be combined with enough speed (energy) to cause death. While I suppose it is possible, I think it unlikely that if all traffic is doing 2 MPH or less a collision will result in a fatality. On the other hand, if a great driver is traveling at 200 MPH and has a mechanical problem as simple as a blown tire a fatality can result.

I'm sorry if I only succeeded in further blurring the issue but that is about the best I can do.

Answer 3

Speeding is defined as exceeding a posted speed limit, which may or may not have any relation to the safe speed of the roadway. Bad driving could include speed that is too fast for conditions, tailgating, unsafe lane changes, running red light, failure to yield right of way, and many other problematic actions.

Driving badly is more likely to cause someone to be killed, or injured. If you consider that speed greater than safe can be considered driving badly, then every incident that includes excessive speed is also part of driving badly. Other things are also considered driving badly, so the total of bad driving incidents will always be greater than or equal to the incidents that are only involving speed.

It would be like asking which has more deaths, motorcycles or motor vehicles. Seeing as a motorcycle is a motor vehicle, the total deaths for motor vehicles will include motorcycle deaths. Therefore the total for motor vehicles can never be less than the total for motorcycles.

If you are asking if exceeding a posted limit is more likely to cause a fatality than bad driving, the answer is no. Speed limits are based on many factors, not all of them safety related. may political factors can go into speed limits being set artifically low, from a safety standpoint!
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Answer 4

Bad Driving

Answer 5

Speeding - if you mean driving too fast for the conditions then it is part of bad driving which is a high cause of accidents on the road. The severity of the accident is often proportional to the speed of the vehicles(s) involved. So high speed bad driving will often end up in death. Speed in itself kills nobody. Traffic Police for example often drive at high speed but usually do not kill anyone unless the other idiots on the road make an absolute prod of it.

If Police targeted bad driving rather than getting cash from speed cameras there would be fewer deaths on the road.

Answer 6

Both of the above mentioned are factors that lead to fatal incidents on the road, adding one or the other is just going to amplify the probability of fatality. You could look at statistics and attempt to determine the most casualty producing factor but unless the data was taken in a controlled environment with all factors monitored you might have some faulty data so in order to conclusively say that one is greater than the other it is impossible to say without first being given the conditions in which the speeding and or bad driving will occur. People speed and drive bad all the time but not all of them end up in a fatal accident or in an accident at all for that matter. So I guess what I am trying to say is I would like to help you, but first you have help us help you by giving us a little more info.

Answer 7

Bad driving. I know of a lady that continually does 5-10 miles under the speed limit. When I see her on the road I do anything to not get behind her. On the freeway where it is 70 mph, she will even do 45 or 50. I swear people like that cause more accidents than speeders ever would. Look at all the elderly accidents that kill alot of people just because they are too prideful to give up the Independence of going whenever they want. Drives me crazy!

Answer 8

Bad driving makes you much more likely to get in a wreck for sure. But speeding gives you less time to react to other bad drivers or your own mistakes. It also gives other people less time to react to you. In those situations, a few seconds to react can mean the difference between living or dying.

If you get in a wreck going excessively over the speed limit you will probably be injured badly or croak.

Speeding is more likely to kill someone else, bad driving is more likely to kill yourself. Of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Answer 9

at the heart of this is defining driving too fast as whilst legally this means over the speed limit, in my mind it means being over the drivers limits which in some cases could be 20 mph or 120mph. Once you are driving over your limits you are driving badly. The secret is to know your limits, and bear in mind you're never as good as you think you are, also that the other idiots on the road are all out to get you. you never know when the car in front is going to pull in and stop without indicating. Most of the bad driving i see as a truck driver is caused by inappropriate speed limits. For example in a 17 ton truck i am limited to 40 mph on a single carriageway, in a built up area this makes sense but on open country roads there is no reason and every idiot on the road gets frustrated leading to them taking frightful risks in order to get past me.

Answer 10

Driving badly. It's lunacy that so many people think that speeding means 'bad driving'. People who drive far slower than necessary for the conditions tend to lack the confidence to be in control of several tonnes of metal as it is, not to mention they **** people off and cause the people around them to drive "badly" to get around them! What's more dangerous checking your speedo for the speed camera whilst hitting a person at 30 mph? Or keeping yor eyes on the road being aware of what's going on at 50 mph and therefore not hitting anyone?