You are all going to die if I don’t get my way!
The governor held a morning news conference in Chicago and said lawmakers who want the new limit would effectively be voting to kill people.
I’m agnostic on trucks going 65 MPH because I haven’t seen the studies or evaluated them. However, it is getting really old to have these two nitwits claiming if you don’t do what they want, you are all going to die!
Trib reported that highway deaths in MO increased by 70% after trucks were allowed to go 65mph in 1996, and that the increase was sustained in subsequent years.
Raw numbers were not provided so who knows if it was 10 more deaths or 1000.
But yes, the hyperbole is unnecessary in light of that statistic.