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Central Avenue alert

Traffic "calming" is anything but

This is for Central Avenue, Paoli
Speed bumps slow down emergency vehicles. The maximum optimum response time for victims of sudden cardiac arrest is 4 minutes, at which time you have a 50-50 chance of survival. At 5 minutes, you have a 19% chance of survival. The average time for a fire to burn beyond its flashover point is 6 minutes. In a study submitted to the City of Boulder, Colorado, it was determined that speed bumps would allow the death of 85 victims for every 1 they saved. They then assumed “a wildly optimistic posture” that still indicated speed bumps would cause 10 lives to be lost for every 1 saved. Read the rest here: https://www2.co.tillamook.or.us/gov/pw/Documents/speed-bump-flyer.pdf

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