“In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patr

While it maybe true that the accident rate is lesser in Butler Couny roads,it hardly provides enough reasons to argue that the road improvement project undertaken by Butler county should be implemented in Prunty county too.The argument lacks credibiity and is rife with holes and asumptions and does not present a case cogent enough to reach the conclusion.

The author has made a number of unstated assumptions.The number of vehicles using the Butler county roads and the Prunty county roads have not been mentioned.It maybe that a much larger number of vehicles use the Prunty county roads and the traffic congestion there is much higher.The types of vehicles, that is,if they are heavy vehicles like lorries or tucks or if they are cars, which are affected by the accidents have also not been mentioned.If more number of heavy vehicles experience accidents in the Prunty roads than in the Butler roads,then the road improvement project may not prove helpful.

The budget available for the Prunty county roads is not stated.The Bunty county may have been allocated more money for the improvement of their roads.Hence they would have been able to implement something more than just restrictions on the speed limits.However the Prunty county may have lacked the money and resources to undetake the project.

The highway patrol may have been lax in their checking of the speed restrictions of the vehicles on the Prunty county roads.If special mechanism like electronic sensors etc had been implemented on the roads or if the officials had been more severe and taken the required steps to put a check on the speeds,many accidents could have been averted even without taking up the road improvement project.

There were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in the Butler county roads.There may have been many more accidents in the Butler county roads which may have gone unreported or not noticed.Were that he case.the argument that the road improvement project was better in the Butler county roads fall apart.

The road conditions of the Prunty county are not clear.It may not be feasible to undertake the improvement project in such an area.The roads may not have enough space or the area for the increase in the lane width or resurfacing it.This project may even involve a huge period of time which causes diificulties for the people using the Prunty county roads.

The road improvement project may have helped the Bounty county to decrease the accidents but this has to be supported with more data evidence to reach the conclusion that it should be implemented in the Prunty county road too.