The result for some rural Michigan roads is that plenty of people are still driving well under 75 mph, but more are now going even faster. The real-world average speed increase on the 75-mph roads in one single-day test sample was just under 2 mph (from 74.6 mph in 2016 to 76.9 mph in 2018), but the total number of people going over 80 mph went from 10 percent to 40 percent of all cars. While the statewide average for crashes rose 3.4 percent in 2018 compared to the annual average from 2014-16 (remember, the speed limits went up part of the way through 2017), the average on the 75-mph roads went up 17.2 percent, Bridge Media found. One study found, however, that with the number of drivers now going over 80 mph on the increase, more people were tending to get into accidents.īridge Media analyzed state police records and found that roads with the new 75-mph speed limit had, on average, more crashes and injuries in 2018 (the full first year for the new limits) compared to the entire road network. Many Michigan residents were relieved in 2017 when a new law saw 600-plus miles of rural freeways get their speed limit raised from 70 mph to 75 mph.
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