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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