Which Kills more, Speeding or bad driving?

Question

I know i just asked a similar question, but in retrospect I felt the grammar didn't convey what I really ment.

What i mean is... which is more likely to kill someone? driving too fast, or driving badly?

Answer 1

A bad driver speeding!

Speed kills if your driving out of your capability. And speeding in crappy weather. But probably the most dangerous person on the road today is a driver who is intoxicated and driving under the influence of oral sex

Answer 2

My Dad had a saying about this very issue. He said, "Speed kills but it doesn't cause accidents".



I don't know if that answers your question, I doubt it. I don't think there really is an answer. I think bad driving certainly causes accidents but an accident must be combined with enough speed (energy) to cause death. While I suppose it is possible, I think it unlikely that if all traffic is doing 2 MPH or less a collision will result in a fatality. On the other hand, if a great driver is traveling at 200 MPH and has a mechanical problem as simple as a blown tire a fatality can result.



I'm sorry if I only succeeded in further blurring the issue but that is about the best I can do.

Answer 3

Speeding is defined as exceeding a posted speed limit, which may or may not have any relation to the safe speed of the roadway. Bad driving could include speed that is too fast for conditions, tailgating, unsafe lane changes, running red light, failure to yield right of way, and many other problematic actions.



Driving badly is more likely to cause someone to be killed, or injured. If you consider that speed greater than safe can be considered driving badly, then every incident that includes excessive speed is also part of driving badly. Other things are also considered driving badly, so the total of bad driving incidents will always be greater than or equal to the incidents that are only involving speed.



It would be like asking which has more deaths, motorcycles or motor vehicles. Seeing as a motorcycle is a motor vehicle, the total deaths for motor vehicles will include motorcycle deaths. Therefore the total for motor vehicles can never be less than the total for motorcycles.



If you are asking if exceeding a posted limit is more likely to cause a fatality than bad driving, the answer is no. Speed limits are based on many factors, not all of them safety related. may political factors can go into speed limits being set artifically low, from a safety standpoint!

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Answer 4

Bad Driving

Answer 5

Speeding - if you mean driving too fast for the conditions then it is part of bad driving which is a high cause of accidents on the road. The severity of the accident is often proportional to the speed of the vehicles(s) involved. So high speed bad driving will often end up in death. Speed in itself kills nobody. Traffic Police for example often drive at high speed but usually do not kill anyone unless the other idiots on the road make an absolute prod of it.



If Police targeted bad driving rather than getting cash from speed cameras there would be fewer deaths on the road.

Answer 6

Both of the above mentioned are factors that lead to fatal incidents on the road, adding one or the other is just going to amplify the probability of fatality. You could look at statistics and attempt to determine the most casualty producing factor but unless the data was taken in a controlled environment with all factors monitored you might have some faulty data so in order to conclusively say that one is greater than the other it is impossible to say without first being given the conditions in which the speeding and or bad driving will occur. People speed and drive bad all the time but not all of them end up in a fatal accident or in an accident at all for that matter. So I guess what I am trying to say is I would like to help you, but first you have help us help you by giving us a little more info.

Answer 7

Bad driving. I know of a lady that continually does 5-10 miles under the speed limit. When I see her on the road I do anything to not get behind her. On the freeway where it is 70 mph, she will even do 45 or 50. I swear people like that cause more accidents than speeders ever would. Look at all the elderly accidents that kill alot of people just because they are too prideful to give up the Independence of going whenever they want. Drives me crazy!

Answer 8

Bad driving makes you much more likely to get in a wreck for sure. But speeding gives you less time to react to other bad drivers or your own mistakes. It also gives other people less time to react to you. In those situations, a few seconds to react can mean the difference between living or dying.



If you get in a wreck going excessively over the speed limit you will probably be injured badly or croak.



Speeding is more likely to kill someone else, bad driving is more likely to kill yourself. Of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Answer 9

at the heart of this is defining driving too fast as whilst legally this means over the speed limit, in my mind it means being over the drivers limits which in some cases could be 20 mph or 120mph. Once you are driving over your limits you are driving badly. The secret is to know your limits, and bear in mind you're never as good as you think you are, also that the other idiots on the road are all out to get you. you never know when the car in front is going to pull in and stop without indicating. Most of the bad driving i see as a truck driver is caused by inappropriate speed limits. For example in a 17 ton truck i am limited to 40 mph on a single carriageway, in a built up area this makes sense but on open country roads there is no reason and every idiot on the road gets frustrated leading to them taking frightful risks in order to get past me.

Answer 10

Driving badly. It's lunacy that so many people think that speeding means 'bad driving'. People who drive far slower than necessary for the conditions tend to lack the confidence to be in control of several tonnes of metal as it is, not to mention they **** people off and cause the people around them to drive "badly" to get around them! What's more dangerous checking your speedo for the speed camera whilst hitting a person at 30 mph? Or keeping yor eyes on the road being aware of what's going on at 50 mph and therefore not hitting anyone?

Answer 11

Driving too fast IS driving badly. Driving badly while not speeding increases the likelihood of an accident, obviously. But there are so many ways in which one can drive badly aside from speeding, that it makes it an impossible question to answer with any accuracy. You'd probably have to break down 'bad driving' into specific categories (e.g., driving too slowly, not signaling, cutting people off, passing someone in a no passing zone) and then analyze it from that point.

Answer 12

Yes, yes, yes, speeding IS bad driving, but seeing as nearly all of the speeders have great control over their vehicles, bad driving is more likely to kill than just speeding.

Answer 13

Bad driving.

Answer 14

I think they would both be classified under bad driving. But I think the fact of higher speed actually would do more harm than bad driving. So I would have to say Speeding.

Answer 15

Do you incredibly want persons to respond to this question? of direction the two at the same time will kill you. superb, you're able to do a hundred mph on a toll street as long by way of fact the line is obvious and you at the instant are not in-dangering different drivers, yet how do you be attentive to your tyre will not burst, your exhaust fall off or your engine seizes up, an animal unexpectedly runs out in front of you, you do not, there is no way you would be waiting to offer up in time. undesirable making use of is the two as risky, slicing different drivers up, staying in the outdoors lane doing 30 mph, tail gating, fog lights on while there is no fog. etc. i've got under no circumstances regularly occurring any driving force that exceeds the fee cut back to do it by way of fact they are concentrating, theypersistent quickly by way of fact they are idiots, brainless boys who think of they very own the line and all people might desire to get out of their way. The "i will go swifter than you" syndrome, and the "consume my airborne dirt and dust" disease. you desire help.

Answer 16

Bad driving mainly

Answer 17

speeding has neverkilled any anybody, ask richard hammond, 300mph and still alive? need i say more? it is the inappropriate use of speed that kills people. you are more likely to get killed at 30 than you are at 70. doing 70 in a 30 and getting killed is down to driver stupidity not the fact he was speeding

Answer 18

Nine times out of ten , bad driving in the conditions prevailing. This coupled with inexperience and lack of tolerance or patience

Answer 19

Bad driving for sure cos if u speed u r a bad driver anyway!

Answer 20

bad driving because you dont have to speed to kill

Answer 21

I actually think someone driving fast concentrates more however when they crash it is more likely to end in death. definately bad driving kills more

Answer 22

Bad driving-not taking the task seriously is a killer.....also, being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Answer 23

Driving too fast is driving badly.

Answer 24

Speeding is bad driving.

Answer 25

driving badly, ask any motorcycle rider its not speed its inattention,



on a motorcycle you get thrown clear at speed, a mate just had mecano taken of leg came off at 30mph was OK then bike came over smashed his leg,

Answer 26

Some say that speeding is bad driving but i guess it depends how much your speeding

Answer 27

a bad driver driving speedly kills

Answer 28

bad driving definately kills more people. You can still drive fast and safely !

Answer 29

It's the dumb fu*kers that think 70mph means 45mph in the left lane,There would be a lot les crashes if the sorry MFs would at least do the speed limit

Answer 30

Speeding IS bad driving dude.

Answer 31

Crashing.

Answer 32

Speeding is bad driving either way you could crash your car and hurt both the car.And Buz driving (drunk driving) is just as bad.

Answer 33

driving drunk, which is driving badly - but speeding is also driving badly, so your question is kinda hard to answer!

Answer 34

Either of the two. The two together kills faster.

Answer 35

well if your speeding and you hit a tree then your sure to be killed but if you driving slowly but badly and hit a tree you'll probably survive!!!

Answer 36

I think that speeding is bad driving.If we all drove properly and with courtesy,and at all recomended speed limits,the roads would be safer for us all.

Answer 37

neither.....not wearing a seat belt does and being a teenager with teenage passengers doesn't help either.

Answer 38

Both.