Numbers.........

Double, triple fines, don't bother me. I DON'T SPEED. EASY.

20,000,000 people driving 100’s of million K’s each year when you think about it 3000 sound’s like a lot but isn’t that high.

On the news today in WA in a few months if you have a radar detector in the car you can be fined $2000, so how is this helping cut the road toll? Is there a connection between deaths on the road and radar detectors, Did I high parentage of the 3000 have Detectors in the Car, very unlikely.

Government’s focus on the wrong areas, instead off let’s train people better from start I.E how to handle and control a car, driving on different surfaces and conditions and at speed+ the road rules.

Instead It’s we will make it hard to get a licence, training consists of a crappy perception test on a Computer, then we will hide radar’s behind trees lower speed limit’s and fine the chit out of people saying it’s all in the name of revenue rasing Ukum I mean road Safety.

How many people died in the NT over the Holiday last I sore it was 0 and they have open limits and no demit points.

We will never have 0 deaths on the road we as humans make mistakes and have accidents, and as the population grows it will only go up as well, driving is a risk you know that when you go out.

I see that in South Africa 639 people died on the roads over the Xmas period. Of that 229 were pedestrians.

World wide 1.2million people get killed on the road each year

I wonder how we compare to other countries? Of course a direct comparison wouldn't be useful, but stats would be interesting.
As for 3000 people not being many, remember that the numbers could be far lower if we started to ask those we pay taxes to, "why is it so ?".
Personally I rekkon any fatality is one too many. In the last week I've experienced five examples of d^&*head driving....and I've purposely kept off the roads as much as possible. Last example was a young man who saw me keeping 2 carlengths behind the vehicle in front. So he figures that's one space for him. No indicators, zap. Car in front stops, he bangs on the anchors and luckily for him I had moved back another space. T'was nearly a case of evolution.
So if I'd of hit him, I would of been charged, he might of been dead and his friends and family decimated. Wouldn't of done much for my sleep either.
But hey, just one more statistic, right ?

It's a fact of life that people will die on the road ,on the sea, or in the air.Sadly accidents will happen but the worst part of the whole scene is when government through there illthought regulations try to fool us in thinking that by taking money off us for some minor offence will fix the problem.A better solution woujd be to have the guts to tackle the real hoons on the road---maybe Singapore style!

NT had the lowest holiday period road toll - because they don't have speed limits!

In 2004, there were 1,598 persons killed in 1,458 road crashes.

I think the first Rd fatality happened somewhere in Late 1890's when the speed traveled was < 10kph. If this is true (I think I herd correctly) We will always have Accidents/ deaths.

Reiner
I feel you rightly queried the statistics.

Leaving emotional issues aside, the very small numbers of people killed during short holiday periods is far too low to have any statistical significance.

There are certain to be quite substantial variations and these variations do not indicate any signicant trend if compared only from one year to another. The standard deviation (the probable variation) is huge. If there is a continuing rise over many years that is of course a different matter.

If road deaths are evaluated on number of cars on road, or total vehicle distance driven, there has been an ongoing fall for a long time.
Collyn Rivers

Reiner,

6.9 people killed per day over 13 days of X-mass.
4.3 people killed per day over the whole year (including X-mass)
i.e. 60% more deaths over x-mass

I think that is fairly significant, however I also agree that the whole "bigger fines for safety sake" is just something they feed the chooks while they take that money and go on a "study tour" to the greek islands with the family.

R.