Thread: The idiots are at it again.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Between 1995 and 2000 According to the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW driveway accidents accounted for less than 10% of all motor related fatalities (still too much)

"All driveway fatalities occurred in places in which the child was known and might be expected to be in."

It is interesting to note that the statement: "4WD’s and other large vehicles were over-represented in driveway fatalities" the only part of that classification that is reported by the media is 4WD. When you analyse the classification, the myriad of white vans, people movers and even trucks are all grouped together with the 4WD.

"When the behaviour of the driver was examined, it was found that 5 of the 9 driveway fatalities were known to occur when the driver was leaving the property, as was the case for 6 of the 10 other off-road pedestrian fatalities." This is one thing that people can do, once checking to the possible presence of a child, reverse into the driveway so you see whats in front when leaving.

There were other factors, like alcohol in some of the cases, unsupervised children in others but the most common reason was that the child moved to the place of the injury unexpectedly.

So Expect the Unexpected

Diana

Actually, it has always been my understanding that reversing out of a driveway is actually illegal!

As others have mentioned above, tests by the NRMA have shown that the number of driving wheels of a vehicle has no fixed relation to the rear visibility, and as someone said above, the Commodore is one of the worst tested. The popular style of a high rear section and a nose down appearance, while it gives good boot space, does nothing for rearward visibility.

John

Nothing like a healthy debate

I see it has got up some as it did me.

Cheers,

So all these drivers surveyed feel threatened by the physical size of 4 wheel drives, however there is no mention of the countless delivery vans, small, medium and large body trucks plus all the semis on the road that are all measurably larger than any 4 wheeler. This 'survey' is as credible as a three dollar note!

Maggsie

Originally Posted by mns488

who cares, there is nothing they can do!

they have been whinging for years about this

now this is a good news article:

Man takes car on 5 day test drive - National - theage.com.au

mmmm. no wonder Land Rover Australia don't respond to my requests for a test drive of the 07 Defender. .....

Originally Posted by RonMcGr

Nothing like a healthy debate

I see it has got up some as it did me.

Cheers,

they should have surveyed more rednecks .... ...to get balance

What a great big heap of crap

If anything is 'socially unacceptable' on our roads....this is it.

1. I installed rear sensors on my 2002 Xtreme, after a near miss with a large tree with a sticking out branch. Didn't cost much either. You only have to bump something once to pay for it.

2. I hate driving my wife's Golf because of the rotten rear vision.

3. Not many domestic middle size vehicles approach the 10 litres/100K including city driving, that we get in our TD5s -Discos and Defenders.