http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1556.asp

1/18/2007
Utah Considers 80 MPH Speed Limit
A Utah Senate committee approved an upgrade in the maximum speed limit to
80 MPH.

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State Senator Scott K. Jenkins (R-Plain City) introduced the legislation
giving state transportation officials the discretion to increase the
legal speed on highways where engineering and safety surveys show most
motorists are already safely traveling at that speed. His proposal also
encourages reasonable limits on other roads based on scientific
engineering studies.

Jenkins' measure also creates a new crime of "careless driving" which
happens when a motorist commits any traffic violation while: on a cell
phone, eating, drinking, smoking, tending to children or other
passengers, looking for something dropped in the car, or grooming
oneself. The police may use unmarked police cars to issue tickets for
careless or reckless driving, but not ordinary speeding. It also outlaws
driving slowly in the left lane of a freeway, saying that dawdlers, "may
not impede the movement or free flow of traffic in the left general
purpose lane."