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From this article about several cities lowering the speed limit of certain rods by 5mph.
This commenter always complains on any article about transportation.
20mph speed limits almost certainly would have saved that user's brother. Every 5mph decrease from 50mph would make it roughly 10% more likely to survive. Assuming the brother is not merely a figment of the imagination.
https://aaafoundation.org/impact-speed-pedestrians-risk-severe-injury-death/
The proportional relationship still applies for drivers and passengers of a vehicle: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/speed-die-car-crash/
Even with the argument that people would flaunt the limit and go the speed they feel like, it only takes one person following the rule to keep everyone else behind in line.