111 mph: Brevard Deputy of the Year avoids arrest under Florida ‘Super Speeder’ law
(www.clickorlando.com)
The risk is bourne by the public in three ways:
- The public pays for the cost of their injuries, either directly through a state healthcare system or in the form of increased premiums. An insurance company has no way to differentiate reckless motorcyclists who are lucky from responsible motorcyclists.
- A crash on a road will close one or more lanes while emergency services attend the site of the crash, causing congestion. While the overall inconvenience per motorist is small, it happens to many hundreds to thousands of motorists and thus collectively wastes hundreds of hours of people's time.
- Normalising reckless behaviour increases its social acceptability, and I think that as soon as it becomes widely known that you won't go to jail for operating a motorcycle at double the speed limit, the first people to try this will be teenagers