Thread: Global road toll.

Some interesting figures there. For example, Canada is between NZ and Australia, yet its next door neighbour, the US, has twice the road death rate.

I suspect Zimbabwe's is so high pro'ly due to other killings being explained away as road deaths. I was surprised NZ was similar to Oz as in my experience they have a lot horrible winding roads, so per capita they are similar but definitely not per kilometre travelled.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

I suspect Zimbabwe's is so high pro'ly due to other killings being explained away as road deaths. I was surprised NZ was similar to Oz as in my experience they have a lot horrible winding roads, so per capita they are similar but definitely not per kilometre travelled.

The way different countries count is going to be a known distortion. One of our just northern neighbors low numbers surprised me. Possibly like a south American counting or not counting covid cases perhaps?

In a ideal world no road deaths would be great. We know a few do nutty things at times. The young P plate Tradie in an old hilux at 180kph on the freeway in Sydney filming himself a week ago was perhaps an example?

Have to be careful what we wish for at times. Fully automated driving might take a joy from us before we want or need that service

If the rate is just per 100k people then does not really mean much as of no one has a car you are going to rank very well

Actually I thought our road toll would have been higher du to the muppets i see driving on a daily basis... i can only put it down to the advances in glasses technology as the new glasses that can see around corners and over the other side of hills for oncoming traffic are amazing.... NOW if anyone can tell me where to buy them i would be extremely greatful.

On thursday i had a car overtaking me going up a hill on the wrong side of the road , im in a 3 trailer roadtrain so in theory 53.5 meters long ,doing 90km/h ,i look down and see 2 small nippers waving at me from the back seat of the car, oblivious to the danger their parents are putting them in, the only thing i can think is... if something comes over that hill , do i go bush.. my daughters are adults now , these nippers have their lives in front of them... Thankfully nothing came over the hill..

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Some interesting figures there. For example, Canada is between NZ and Australia, yet its next door neighbour, the US, has twice the road death rate.

No doubt the USA toll reflects the lack of legal necessity to wear seatbelts or motorcycle helmets, in some states.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

No doubt the USA toll reflects the lack of legal necessity to wear seatbelts or motorcycle helmets, in some states.

The US has a very different view of road deaths (perhaps similar to their view on covid ones) Some years ago when I was in San Francisco for an extended time the only reporting on road fatalities was on the traffic reports and how a person dying in a crash was going to interrupt the commute. This would happen a few times a week in an area that housed about 7 million people.

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