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I was stuck in traffic for 5 hours Saturday trying to get to CW of Nashville for some service on my MH. When I got back home last night learned what had happened, and why Interstate 65 was shut do...
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Daveinet wrote:
SO I have a question. If the rest of the traffic is driving 70 mph, what is the minimum safe speed for one to travel?
Dave, you're a dense one aren't you? Tell you what, you're an adult so you figure it out yourself. It's clear that since you're not getting the answers that you want to hear, that you're going to continue to beat this horse. You can "what if", and "how about", and "how come", this issue until you're blue in the face and the answer will always be the same, and that is, What would common sense dictate?
The short answer to your question is this, what ever the safest speed is for the conditions present at the time, to include lighting, weather, traffic, and vehicle limitations. If the speed limit is 70 and there is ice or snow on the road, does that mean you must drive 70? And please don't give me that BS rhetoric about slower vehicles pose more of a threat to safety than faster ones. That is just not true. As long as that slower vehicle is in the proper lane, no safety is compromise. It is the speeding vehicle that dicatates the event, not the slow one. I've never investigated a TC where both vehicles were going slow, and that's a stone-cold fact, however, I've investigated plenty where at least one was going faster than conditions permitted.
Anyway, I'm done with this topic because we're just on two different sides of the planet on this one, so I'll leave you and others with the last word.
Take care now.
