emphatic YES vote to Poll

Michael, As someone who has close ties with both sides of the result of an accident, I agree wholeheartedly with your points of view. Whilst I oppose the argument of a special licence for 4 wheel drives, I do support the restriction of high performance vehicles in the hands of younger and inexperienced drivers. In addition to this, I would like the access to enviromentally sensitive areas to also be restricted to those drivers who have undergone at least a basic accredited training course with other areas restricted to the advanced accredited training modules. If we as drivers can demonstrate our care and concerns for our natural habitats, our respective 4WD Associations can then argue our case for greater access to all of our already restricted access to National Parks. We are not all fitness fanatics who are able to endure multi day treks carrying our food, camping equipment etc to these places. It would appear that the ultra's who control our parks forget that many of us have young families, are infirmed or maybe just too old to undertake those activities that they seem to want us all to endure. I'm sorry that I've gone off on a tangent but I think one leads to another. They are just my opinions and I respect the rights of those with opposing views.

Michael,

I agree 100% that road toll should be reduced. I agree 100% that irresponsible driving should be discouraged.

1) If all television advertising of cars was banned today, what impact do you think it would have on the road toll? 5%, 10%, 25% reduction?

2) Can you think of anything else we could do that might be more effective than just changing the advertising laws?

Cheers,
Pete

Young people will rebel Race cars , do Burnouts , ect ect ect ,most of us did . I did say most . What we need is a safe avenue for kids to go and practice these things . Calder park in the only legle place to race . and its expensive and almost non existent . You may remember 7 years ago . Calder park started burnout comps every Friday night , for the time that it ran , Street racing was down by 50% , Why ? they had somewere to go to unleash there frustrations . Its a little hard for some one to go from Packernam to Calder though. Hence the other 50%.
The reason I got into 4x4 is because its the last frontier so to speak . Hunting has become almost imposible , because its voudou to have a gun , If you own a drag car, there is nowhere to race it .Unless you was to tow it for hours on end .
Now I am told to shut up and not speak about my current hobbie been destroid before my very eyes .

Some of us drink lattei , other hunt shoot and do burnouts , thats life , one does not need to show the other that there way of life is correct . Show me a real plan on saving kids and ill be happy , give them something to do and stop telling them that they cant do something , and you will see a change .

Why do we stop doing butnouts with our cars ? we get sick of it , how do we get sick of it ? we get sick of purchasing new tyres . Give them a place to go , controled and safe , and let them burn rubber till there sick of paying fo it . Give them tracks to race on , and they will get borred of it sooner than later .Eric Christopher wholesale