Lowest road toll in 90 years - why?

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

The fact that they suspend your licence for not paying some piddly little fine like 5km/h over the limit is just more proof that governments have been allowed to get away with excessive harassment of the poor old motorists, who have been treated like suckers and exploited umercifully. The fact that a huge number of drivers are currently unlicensed is mostly nothing to do with road safety, but is simply because people either won't, can't or aren't aware that they have fines to pay. There have been many cases of people not even receiving fines in the mail, maybe because they moved or their dog ate it, and not even knowing that their licences have been suspended. This has nothing to do with road safety, its simply another example of harassment, I reckon.
Americans fought a war to be free of British harassment. The miners at Eureka revolted against government atempts to impose a crippling mining tax on them. Edward Snowden fled to Russia to expose the way Americans, and all of us, are being spied on by our own governments. Wikileaks has exposed many other examples of how we the people are being lied to by our governments.
Does personal liberty mean nothing nowdays? When will we mushrooms finally get so fed up that we decide we're not going to take it any more?

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about time you got fired up. But watch out Adolf Newman and his henchmen are waiting and watching.

Yes, I assume someone is reading this right now. No, that wasn't a joke - I really do assume that. If we mention the right words, the computers will trigger a response. After all, we now know that all communications which go through a satellite at any point are being monitored.

Just read a FB post about a bloke complaining he was fined $146 on the Logan Motorway for not keeping both feet on the footpegs of his motorcycle - apparently he stretched a leg to ward off cramp and a cop fined him. How ridiculous! TIme to revolt folks.

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well best go talk to Clive perhaps. His the only bloke with money. And perhaps the only bloke willing to see things outside the usual two parties (Boofhead and Boso) way of thinking.

I can tell you, writing letters is a wast of time. Usually don't even respond.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

DId the law-abiding interstate motorcyclists crash? Probably not in the figures.

Two interesting facts about 2013:

1. 2013 had the lowest road toll in 90 years in NSW and Victoria.

2. 2013 was the hottest year in Australia in 90 years, according to the official weather records.

Those who enjoy conspiracy theories ( or dodgy logic) might conclude that hot weather lowers the road toll, while cold weather causes more people to crash. Unlikely, I would think, but amusing.


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Might actually be some substance in it - wet weather does result in more accidents, and wet weather is usually associated with cold weather.

John

There's no money in suicide for the government because they haven't worked out how to use their collective data to work out who are the likely candidates and then take out insurance policies on them and collect.

I got a fine in the mail in Dec, photo was taken in March, hire car. They stuffed around that long that the fine penalties have trippled the original value. Now despite the fact that it wasn't passed to me until Dec apparently I'm still liable for the non payment penalties. We'll see about that in court.

Ugu80 said "You left out the medical factor. You are simply far more likely to survive serious injury now than 20 years ago. "

I reckon that we see fewer nasty "multi-splat" casualties than 10 or 15 years ago. Its not just that fewer traumas die- there aren't as many full stop.

They reckon that 80000 people are alive now who would have died if the rules (and society) changes we have seen since 1970 hadn't happened.

The sad fact is that with to-days hi tech cars and better roads there really should not be any deaths on our roads other than those that are linked to mechanical failures or acts of god , I still say nearly all the carnage on our roads is the result of inconsiderate people who will not drive according to conditions or the laws of the road or just plain brain dead bogons . Sadly sometimes the innocent person doing the right thing is the one that pays the price .
Someone gets eaten by a shark and all hell breaks loose , a road death is about as news worthy as a root canal .