People are more likely to get in a crash driving in a city or town, but are three times more likely to die in a crash in rural roads.

New legislation introduced last week would set higher speed limits on interstates and highways. Senate File 289 would set the speed limit to 65 miles per hour to high speed roads. It would also increase interstate highways to 75 miles per hour.

State patrol says speed is the deadliest factor in rural crashes. On average rural crashes on secondary roads take 164 lives a year in the state of Iowa.

One Eastern Iowa family knows the pain of losing a loved one in a crash. It’s been nearly a year since Kevin Miller died in a motorcycle crash.

"Like three minutes before the accident and I seen him and he waved and I waved I mean he went around the corner and went up the hill and there was a car coming and it went up over. He went out because there was a guy standing on the side of the road and just gave him room and hit the car head on,” Jerome Miller said.

Miller died on impact. He was driving in a rural area South of Iowa City. In a flash Jerome lost his brother, and this tight-knit family lost a vibrant 23 year old. It was not determined if speed was a factor in this crash.

State Trooper Bob Conrad says speed is the deadliest factor in rural crashes.

"You're going faster because there's not as many cars around, there's not as many cars around you maybe get away with it you don't see that trooper out there yeah I do think all the statistics out there to show that it can be more deadly on those rural roads," Conrad said.

State patrol data shows the fatal crash rate on rural secondary roads are nearly 3 but on city streets it is less than one per 100 Million Vehicle Miles of Travel.

Trooper Conrad's biggest piece of advice: slow down and follow the speed limit.

"The speed limit is all about the safest speed you can go on good normal conditions so when you have a speed limit of 55 on a rural black top road that is the speed that it determined with the road, the hills, the curb and traffic stuff like that out there it's the safest limit to be going when you start pushing that it isn't about getting a ticket, it's about saving your life,” Conrad said.

Miller’s family is focusing on the good memories and cherishing the 23 years they got to spend with Kevin and their faith that he's in a good place.

"I think we all know he's up with God it just makes it a lot easier,” Jerome Miller said.