unsafe speed

unsafe speed
The speed of a motor vehicle at such a rate as to render it impossible to control the course of the vehicle or to stop it in time to avoid a collision with other vehicles or objects along the way. Robinson v LeSage, 145 Me 300, 75 A2d 447.

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