“Higher speed leads to more fatalities” – De Gelderlander

The chances of deaths in a big accident on the highway increases as the speed limit is higher, reports the Volkskrant Wednesday based on its own research.

on roads where motorists can drive 130 kilometers per hour fell in 2015 one or more fatalities in 10.4 percent of the accidents. That was 7.5 percent more than on roads where the speed limit is 120 kilometers per hour. 100-km road was only 1.7 percent off fatal. Moreover, the total number of fatalities in 2015 compared with the previous year, with a peak at 130-km roads.

The figures support the theory that accidents at higher speeds lead to greater injury. About 120 or 130 and runs on a pole or other road user crashes, must collect a much harder hit than those with 100 kilometers per hour opknalt somewhere. The Foundation for Road Safety Research (SWOV) in 2012 noted already, “As the speed is higher, resulting a collision in serious injury.

Minister of Infrastructure Schultz, however, that there is no single explanation for the rise the number of fatalities. “This also applies to the relationship of the accident with the speed limit,” she says in the Volkskrant.