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No I mean like while driving. Is it safer for me to drive at normal speed (the flow of traffic), or to drive exactly the speed limit.
Technically, with the speed of traffic. But you're also technically safer driving a big ass truck, for example. It's the same fallacy.
Personally, you are safer driving with the traffic. Collectively, it is better to follow speed limits.
Personally, you're safer driving a giant truck. Collectively, they lead to much more lethal outcomes for pedestrians/cyclists/everyone else.
Any attempts at blaming those going by the limit are picking the wrong people to blame and shifting public opinion towards practices that are bad for road safety. We should all drive by the limit, not all drive above it. That's the safest way.
And if someone driving by the limit is causing inconvenience to speeders, yes, the speeders are to blame. It is them who sacrifice the safety of us all to get to their destination 12% faster.