Brent P wrote:
>
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...ck=3&cset=true
>
> Year's road fatalities decrease
>
> By Imran Vittachi
> Tribune staff reporter
> Published January 10, 2005
>
> Traffic crashes in Illinois killed 113 fewer people last year than
in
> 2003, according to preliminary findings released Sunday by state
officials.
>
> Early numbers indicate that in 2004, 1,341 people were killed in
crashes,
> compared with 1,454 the year before--a decrease of 8 percent,
authorities
> said.
>
> A final report will come out later this year. But if the preliminary
> numbers hold, the figure would mark the lowest number of traffic
deaths
> in Illinois since 1943, when 1,328 people were killed, state
officials said.
> <...>
>
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>
>
> Just think about how low this number could be pushed with proper
speed
> limits, keep right except to pass enforced, and various other laws
that
> keep vehicles from crashing into each other in the first place.

Before bitching about KRETP enforcement, why don't you try following
the KRETP law yourself.

>
> Meanwhile driving no doubt continues to increase driving down the
rate
> numbers even further, while traffic speeds I observe on interstates
> continue to increase.