Man loses 33 demerit points in one go.

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Originally Posted by Homestar

Yep, and how much do we spend preventing that compared to car crashes. A tiny percentage I bet. 🙁

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There's no money in suicide prevention.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

There's no money in suicide prevention.

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lost taxes?

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Originally Posted by mick88

Worth noting that in NSW at least, the typical fatal accident involves a single vehicle leaving a rural two lane road and hitting a fixed object, usually a tree.

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Side impact to a vehicle is still a big killer.
A 200-300mm encroachment into the side of a vehicle usually means that there has been at least 30% more on impact, so the occupant has taken the full force of the impact.

Cheers, Mick.[/QUOTE]

Yes, and a lot of fatalities involve cars hitting a tree while travelling sideways!

Trees are incredibly hard, I've seen a car hit a tree and smash the whole front in, but it only knocked the bark off the tree.

Yes, and it doesn't need to be a very big tree either. 20cm trunk diameter will stop any car - might lose a little bit of bark.