Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine didn’t mince words last month when he weighed in on a legislative plan to increase speed limits on certain Ohio highways: He was a no.
“Every expert that you talk to can tell you that the data clearly shows that if we increase the speed limit, even only by five miles per hour, there will be people who will die in Ohio that would not have died if we kept the speed limit where it is today,” DeWine told reporters.
Ohio lawmakers abandoned the speed limit proposal. But in at least five other states — Indiana, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota and West Virginia — state legislators have pushed similar speed limit hikes this year, even as traffic fatalities have climbed to their highest level in nearly two decades.
