On Jan 26, 3:51*pm, (Cynic) wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:15:28 +0000, Mike Barnes

wrote:
Quite so. But if someone was killed, chances are that that was not a
safe speed. Regardless of the speed limit.

No, that does not follow at all. *Many pedestrians are killed every
year by being struck by trains. *Does that indicate to you that the
train was travelling at an unsafe speed?

What you say is true only if excessive speed *was a causal factor* in
the accident. *Which I believe is not the case in the majority of
accidents (including those where the driver was exceeding the posted
speed limit).

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Cynic

Pedestrians killed by trains are mostly trespassers and deserve to die
for the same reason as these copper thieves.