Montana Insurance

Charges of thousands of placards painted high-speed borders went to the West in recent days, but officials of road safety is not predicting an annual growth of the Saint-Sylvestre in the traffic death toll.

Launch of state traffic statistics do not show an increase of people killed since December 8, the date marking the end of the Confederation of 21 years, around 55 miles-Hour speed limit.

Starting today, we have 11 victims of accidents in the state since December 8, but no one can be mounted directly on the new higher speeds, “Craig T. Reap, head of Montana’s Highway Patrol, said Friday. “A couple has been under ice. A vehicle took momentum.”

Montana was intense under the control of national authorities, as it dropped numerical speed limits during the day and returned to an old system of individual responsibility when the driver was needed for a “sound and prudent “The nature and manner.

“How do you spend on the railroad Montana,” The Billings Gazette, a national newspaper, said in a title of an article on the new speed limit laws.

On most German motorways, the pilots did not face speed limits. Here, highway patrol officers deems reasonable and prudent “according to a basket of factors, including traffic and road conditions, car and driver.

In the first agitation, as the leader of a club called the Minnesota Montana officials to ask if she could organize a demonstration of 700 corvettes race on the status of 150 mph.

What many Out-of-staters has failed in small print. Montana’s former $ 5 “fuel conservation,” junked ticket for a new scale of fines, distances up to $ 520. For the first time, the acceleration of tickets in Montana as points on licences which can be used for insurance rates.

Here in the nation-state that the highway speeds have crawled higher, but not dramatic. Before the change, surveys have shown that only half of Montana drivers obeyed sent borders.

“I did not see much difference on a - in the early days, the man himself seems to go a little slower, Clarence Johnson, a hunting guide on the momentum, he said the pilot of his truck pick-up by the Gallatin mountains of southern Montana. “With this $ 5 ticket, people are already paying much attention.”

Studying data from eight highways magnetic sensors embedded in the road pavements, Montana Highway safety officers revealed that 85 per cent of transport now travels at 74 mph or less, something higher than the 72 miles per hour under the old border.

“It is important to understand that things do not work Amok on our rail transport system,” said Albert E. Goke - the director of security for the Division of public transport. “There is no indication that there is a rash of deaths on the roads because of current speed.”

But, he added, the group of drivers going beyond 80 mph, jumped 5 percent, 2 percent. Driving speeds are generally higher in the eastern plains of Montana, where long lines of flat roads connect farflung municipalities.

“It is absolutely safe to drive 85 to 90 during the day in a dry place without Interstate Traffic,” said James H. Taylor, a real estate agent. “I am quite reasonable and wise. It is a great statement of Montana: We are not to cede to the rest of the world. We have vast green spaces, and we are confident of a vehicle. ”

Dir of Montana, Marc Racicot acknowledged in an interview that the Big Sky State, which was separated on the subject.

“We are developing in a huge space with the requirement that we act independently,” said the governor. Realizing that the State Legislative May day debate on the introduction of speed limits in 1997, he added: “For some, there is a feeling of warmth and comfort to know where is the dividing line.”

In a poll by Montana State University, Billings a few days before numerical speed limits were lifted, 60 percent of drivers interviewed borders of the state wanted the day two-lane secondary roads, and 72 percent wanted borders the progress of the three Interstate Highways.

More strong resistance against speed limits have come from groups of men age 18 to 30 Stronger support for speed limits came from women over 63 years.