I'm going to pick this post apart a bit, because it's very easy to do. You state VERY MATTER OF FACTLY, "all semis run into the back of stopped or slowed cars" We both know that isn't remotely true. 1 out of every 100000 semis run into the back of stopped of slowed cars is a much more accurate statement, but I'm probably still exaggerating.
Further that, if you want to talk statistics, lets do so. I'm no statistician, but I can tell you that speeding kills less as a percentage then drunk driving. How many people drive drunk? Approx 1,500,000 million tickets for DUI every year in the US. 10,075 killed every year in the US. Compare that to speeding tickets. 41,000,000 per year in the US, while 35,000 die altogether, INCLUDING DUI's. Approx 10% were pedesterians. That means non-DUI deaths is around 25,000 per year. Likely less than 1/2 are speeding, which means speeding kills 1/2 of those, and DUI kills the other half. As a statistic, the chance of a drunk driver killing someone is 0.67%. The chance of a speeder killing someone is 0.03%. That's 22 time more likely. Granted not all speeders are caught, but by no means are all drunk drivers caught either.
To take that one more step, it's difficult to say that speeding was the only reason a person was killed. It could be a variety of factors that resulted in a death. The vast majority of DUI deaths are caused basically because the driver was drunk. Even that can be skewed though, because someone could run in front of a drunk driver, driver is found to be drunk, and it's his or her fault.
I think what the police really have to go after is cell phone use. I don't believe it's as bad as drunk driving, but it takes your eyes off the road, and that isn't going to end well in the long run. I TRULY don't believe that talking and driving tends to be a problem, but anything that gets you looking at your screen, like texting, is a problem. If you're going to talking on your phone a lot, get something that you can talk hands-free.
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