Relationship between Speeding and Safety for Chongqing-Yichang Expressway

Speeding drive has become a big problem troubling traffic engineers and is an important incentive cause leading to road traffic accidents.It not only leads to an increase of the number of traffic accidents,but also aggravates the seriousness of the accident.After analyzing the accident cause of Chongqing-Yichang expressway,the ratio of accidents caused by speeding to the total number of accidents and the ratio of death number caused by speeding to the total number of accidents are used to measure the effect of speeding on the number of traffic accidents and the seriousness of the accident.After analyzing the speeding situation,some measures are put forward to solve this com-plex problem systemically and synthetically,such as setting speed limits reasonably,enhancing law enforcement and information induction,as well as enhancing traffic safety publicity.