Drivers laugh at the limit

We asked you to tell us what it's like driving on North Carolina's highways. Here's some of what you said:

Upon moving to North Carolina from California last fall, I quickly developed my opinion that the speed limit here is merely a suggestion to motorists.

TIFFANY A. BENSEN

DURHAM

It is bad enough here in Sanford in Lee County, but in Wake County, it is extremely scary to travel on the main highways. I get tailgated, cut off, zipped around at stoplights and develop high anxiety driving there.

ROBERT CLINE

SANFORD

I travel I-40 and 440 at least twice daily, sometimes more. If I go the posted speed limit, nine out of 10 cars pass me like I'm standing still. Local drivers here are bumper-riders and don't give you a chance to breathe.

FREDERICK KING

CARY

If you drive the speed limit on any road, you will be at the end of the line. I travel I-40/85 to near Winston-Salem on Friday and back to Raleigh on Sunday. It's not at all uncommon to see drivers going 80 to 90 mph. If you don't move for them, they shake their fists, flash their lights and so on.

PHIL REVIS

NORTH WILKESBORO

While making my daily commute from Raleigh to Goldsboro, I encounter a young woman driving a silver Honda V-6 coupe. She comes up from behind, passes you and is out of sight in just a couple of minutes. While everyone else is traveling at about 60 mph, I estimate her speed to be about 75 to 80 mph. I have advised the Highway Patrol about her a couple of times. They said they would be on the lookout for her.

WADE SUDDRETH

LAGRANGE

How many people are killed and how many injured from speeding? How much are we paying to our automobile insurance companies as a result of speeding? What's the medical cost, what's the cost to maimed and disabled crash victims in lost income? What's the effect on the family that loses a loved one?

LOUIE M. WALTERS JR.

DURHAM