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Reasonable and prudent lasted around 5 or 6 years here. It was challenged at the Montana Supreme Court as being vague. Some pinhead was doing 120 mph and argued this both reasonable and prudent. The reasonable and prudent came about as a result of the 1994 US Congress lifting the mandated 55mph speed limit. Before that, the police would hand out conservation fines of $5 for anything under about 90mph. Currently our speed limit is 80mph on the interstate, 70mph on two lanes. Although we are a rural state (around 4 times the size of Michigan or Ohio) and until recently less than 1 million people, our large critters can wreak havoc. I have a friend that hit a moose, and when the tow truck operator came to retreive the car off Hwy 200, he was in total disbelief that the driver could survive. So some limits do seem reasonable.