Thread: 48,000 Dead on our Roads

Very Sad indeed. - 48,000 too many. Feel sorry for the emergency workers who have to endure this senseless killing. I wonder how many of them have had to give up work due to seeing that much carnage.

They were saying on the radio the other night , over 100,000 per year killed on the roads in India. I wondered if that was a mistake but then I just watched how taxi's drive and I come to believe its very possible.

Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by Fatso

According to the ABC news there has been 48000 Deaths on our roads since 1989 , comes as bit of a shock when presented with these numberes , i was going to make a point but i just can not put any words to it......... . Sad .

What can you say to that if true stats.

Those numbers look about right.... but sadly typical of much reporting today, only tell half the story.

It seems they pick a long enough time frame to get to a number impressive enough to support their point - Why pick 1989?... 28 years ago?

While the numbers are still too big, if they had taken, for example a 10 year period - it would have been just under 13,000.

The last decade the road toll has been significantly better than the first decade from '89

List of motor vehicle deaths in Australia by year - Wikipedia

It's all about how you present the numbers to support your point of view....

It's a pity in my view that the ABC didn't use the stats to point out that over the last X years we have made some significant improvements.... but there is more work to be done.

You might notice that 2017 was one of the lowest rates per 100,000 head of population on record.....but that didn't make the news.

Originally Posted by Fatso

According to the ABC news there has been 48000 Deaths on our roads since 1989 , comes as bit of a shock when presented with these numberes , i was going to make a point but i just can not put any words to it......... . Sad .

This number is sobering, but according to ABS figures about the same number die each year from accidental falls.
Intentional self harm numbers are higher.

Originally Posted by bsperka

This number is sobering, but according to ABS figures about the same number die each year from accidental falls.
Intentional self harm numbers are higher.

Yes and probably a lot more from illness etc they are things that not a lot can be done to prevent , on the other hand most of the road deaths were preventable or caused by neglegent drivers as apposed to an actual real vehicle acident . It just gets on my goat that so many people die on our roads needlessly , the only people that can do anything about it is the road users themselves , but i wont hold my breath .

Originally Posted by Fatso

Yes and probably a lot more from illness etc they are things that not a lot can be done to prevent , on the other hand most of the road deaths were preventable or caused by neglegent drivers as apposed to an actual real vehicle acident . It just gets on my goat that so many people die on our roads needlessly , the only people that can do anything about it is the road users themselves , but i wont hold my breath .

Yes, preventable - but how? How do you get through to those that don't take care on the roads? They think it won't happen to them, same as most of us when we were younger I suppose. Nothings changed there IMO.

As autonomous vehicles become the norm, the toll will drop - only way it's going to happen I think.

People die every day from hundreds of different causes,it happens. Pat

Lets have some more sobering facts..
I’d be much more concerned by the Mental health issues.