THE chance of a someone being hurt in an accident on the Newell Highway has decreased over the last decade and speed limit changes should be reversed, the NRMA declared yesterday.The NRMA reiterated its support for the speed limits that had been reduced on the major highway to return to 110km/h, and used the report commissioned by the organisation as part of its Seeing Red on Roads campaign.According to the report, which was conducted by the ARRB Group using the same methodology applied by the Australian Road Assessment Program, the number of injury crashes has decreased in the last ten years.Crash and traffic volume data for the five year periods of 2000 to 2004 and from 2005 to 2009 was analysed for the report, and comparisons showed the number of fatalities remained steady and injury crashes were down to 315 for the later half of the decade, compared to 366.NRMA motoring and services director, Graham Blight, said increasing the speed limit to 110km/h would be "a huge relief" for drivers, who have been travelling at the same speed as trucks since the limit was reduced in 2009."When cars were travelling at 100km/h on the highway they could share the road safely with heavy vehicles limited to 100km/h, yet when the speed limit was dropped a range of safety concerns came in to play such as overtaking safely, traffic bunching together and tailgating," he said."There's no doubt that the Newell Highway needs a lot of work done - only 10 per cent of the highway has overtaking lanes. However, the safety risk on the highway certainly did not justify the speed limit being reduced to 100km/h for cars last year."