Defensive Driving - Speed Kills: How Speeding Kills
Last Updated 02/2025
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What you'll learn
Identify the impact of speed on road safety, including its correlation with fatal accidents and the exponential increase in collision severity with higher speeds.
Understand the factors influencing stopping distance, including vehicle type, road conditions, and environmental factors, and their implications for safe driving practices.
Develop strategies for promoting safe driving habits, such as maintaining appropriate speeds relative to road conditions, adhering to posted speed limits, and recognizing the importance of reaction time in collision avoidance.
Description
Speed is behind more than 30 percent of fatal crashes. This course shows how it shrinks reaction time, weakens control, and worsens every collision.
What this course covers:
- How speed correlates with fatal crashes
- The effect of speed on reaction time and vehicle control
- How weather and road conditions compound driving risk
- Why impact force rises exponentially as speed climbs
Ideal for drivers who want to understand the physics that makes speed deadly.
System Requirements
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Author
Safety Instruct provides OSHA Compliance and Workplace Safety training designed to keep employees safe and organizations compliant. Their catalog includes Hazard Communication, PPE, Fire Safety, and industry-specific courses that meet federal and state regulations. The training is interactive, accessible, and tailored for both employees and supervisors. Safety Instruct emphasizes practical, real-world learning that helps reduce workplace risks. Companies use these courses to strengthen safety programs and meet compliance requirements.
Defensive Driving - Speed Kills: How Speeding Kills
Frequently Asked Questions
Speed is behind more than 30 percent of fatal crashes, a figure the course uses to open its case.
The course covers the effect of speed on reaction time and vehicle control.
Yes, how weather and road conditions compound driving risk is part of the course.
The course explains why impact force rises exponentially as speed climbs.
Drivers who want to understand the physics that makes speed deadly.
This course is designed for employees who need to complete Defensive Driving - Speed Kills: How Speeding Kills training
Yes. This course is designed to meet applicable federal requirements and commonly mandated state standards. Always confirm specific state or industry requirements with your local regulations.
The course takes approximately 7 minutes to complete and can be paused and resumed at any time.
Yes. Learners receive a downloadable certificate upon successful completion, which can be used for compliance records and audits.
Yes. You can assign this course to individuals or groups using Coggno’s LMS, or purchase multiple seats for your team.
Yes. This course can be exported for delivery in most learning management systems (SCORM compatible).
Yes. The course is fully self-paced and available 24/7.
Yes. This course includes a knowledge check to reinforce learning and verify completion.
Learners have lifetime access from the date of purchase.
Yes. A preview is available so you can review the course format and content before purchasing.
Yes. Content is reviewed and updated as regulations and best practices change.
Yes. This course is available for free with an active Prime Subscription.
Yes. Refund requests can be submitted within 30 days of purchase.
This training focuses on the critical role of speed in roadway accidents, attributing over 30% of fatal crashes to excessive speed. The course emphasizes the impact of speed on reaction time, vehicle control, and the severity of collisions, discussing how external factors like weather and road conditions compound driving risks. Participants gain insights into the exponential increase in the rate of impact with higher speeds, promoting awareness of the heightened danger associated with speed and its profound impact on road safety. Identify the impact of speed on road safety, including its correlation with fatal accidents and the exponential increase in collision severity with higher speeds. Understand the factors influencing stopping distance, including vehicle type, road conditions, and environmental factors, and their implications for safe driving practices. Develop strategies for promoting safe driving habits, such as maintaining appropriate speeds relative to road conditions, adhering to posted speed limits, and recognizing the importance of reaction time in collision avoidance.
Course Objectives:
Identify the impact of speed on road safety, including its correlation with fatal accidents and the exponential increase in collision severity with higher speeds.;Understand the factors influencing stopping distance, including vehicle type, road conditions, and environmental factors, and their implications for safe driving practices.;Develop strategies for promoting safe driving habits, such as maintaining appropriate speeds relative to road conditions, adhering to posted speed limits, and recognizing the importance of reaction time in collision avoidance.;;
Duration: 7 min.