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According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the number of traffic fatalities may increase anywhere from 9 percent to 14 percent in 2015. This increase, if it occurs, would be the biggest increase in the car accident death toll in the past seven decades. There are many possible reasons why the death rate may be so much higher this year, with possible reasons for the rising death toll including more road trips due to cheaper gas, and more cell phone use since almost every driver has a cell phone now.

While more traffic and more distracted drivers are unquestionably dangerous, there is one basic and disturbing driving behavior that is playing a huge role in causing motor vehicle accidents leading to serious injuries and deaths. That behavior is speeding.

Speeding is against the law, but when drivers do it anyway, they endanger themselves and others. If a driver is going too fast and causes a crash, the fact he broke the speed limit could create a presumption of negligence. Randall Spivey, a Ft. Myers personal injury lawyer, can explain what this could mean to your case if you decide to pursue a claim for compensation for your losses.

An attorney with experience representing crash victims will also assist with all aspects of determining if you have a case and filing a claim for monetary compensation if someone is speeding and hurts you.

Could Speed Cameras Reduce the Risk of Florida Accidents?

Auto Blog warns that speeding is one of the major reasons for the rising death toll on U.S. roads, since speed is a factor in approximately 1/3 of all traffic fatalities in the United States. The good news is, a new report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety suggests that there may be a way to prevent a good number of these accidents and save thousands of lives.

To prepare the report, researchers from IIHS studied the effectiveness of a speed camera program that was put into place in Montgomery County, VA. The research found that the presence of speed cameras was able to reduce the risk of a fatal or incapacitating motor vehicle accident by as much as 19.4 percent.

If speed cameras were to be installed nationwide and achieved a similar level of effectiveness in bringing down the rate of deaths, this would mean as many as 21,000 fewer incapacitating or fatal injuries in car accidents every single year.

Although speed cameras may be effective, they are not used in many locations throughout the United States. There use, however, is increasing. Autoblog indicates there were 115 speed camera programs across the U.S. in 2011 and that there was a peak of 140 cameras in 2014. As of September 2015, there were 138 camera programs.

If you or someone you love has been injured by someone who was speeding at the time of the collision, help is available. Contact the Spivey Law Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.A. to discuss the specifics of your case.