A new AAA-funded crash test study shows that even slight changes in speed on the highway can have big consequences. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Humanetics study found even slightly higher speeds were enough to increase the driver’s risk of severe injury or death. State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmusz says drivers often travel faster than posted speed limits and when officials raise limits to match travel speeds, people still go faster. He says during the pandemic there seems to be more people speeding with fewer cars on the road last year. A 2019 Highway Safety study found that rising speed limits have cost nearly 37,000 lives over 25 years.
