this is where I see that a lot of us make the error,
66% of all the accidents between cars and bikes....not the total of all bike accidents.
the figures refer only to a section of the accidents as you can see.
50% of the accedents for bikes where no other vehicle is involed are caused by.....
20% of bike accedents involve more than one bike................pluss the car
18.5% of bike accedents are due to road conditions.......but involve speed,
It depends upon what angle you want to look at it, like they say statistics can be missleading if you have an agender.
The dominions agender is to sell papers,
The non bike riding public want fuel for arguments in disussing this matter,
The dominion gave them this, It sells.
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Sent the editor a letter of my own. As follows:
Dear Editor
In your editorial of 19 November, regarding ACC levies on motorcycles, you make two statements that I would take you to task over. Viz:
1. "Mountain climbers and sportspeople are engaging in activities that improve the general fitness of the population and provide a health benefit that offsets the cost of broken bones."
2. "But neither should (motorcyclists) expect other road users to subsidise their pleasures."
The first statement suggests you believe no good is produced from riding a motorcycle. My bike goes three times as far on a litre of petrol as does my station wagon and it occupies less space on the roads. Is this not in the public good? Producing less congestion and a smaller carbon footprint surely has some merit. How often are we chided for driving around solo in a car capable of carrying four or more people? Riding a bike solves this problem for one.
The second statement suggests you believe motorcycles are ridden only for pleasure. Wrong. Many people have a motorcycle as their only means of transport. Whilst I love to ride and do indeed ride for pleasure at times, a major factor in my using a motorcycle is to reduce my fuel bill. Which it does - see above.
I hope you will take these factors into account in future discussions of ACC levies.
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
No, what they are saying is our accidents cost more per accident and we are 16 times more likely to have an accident, which is totally misleading. I've done a lot of marketing over the years and if I said this in an advertisement a competitor or client could have a field day under a number of different acts.
The reality is that we claim less per accident and we are only (appox) 3 times more likely to have an accident.
If Nicks Smiths figure of $745.00 ACC levy for a 600CC machine was calculated from us being 16 times more likely to have an accident then the levy is probably fair enough. (provided of course that New Zealanders to abandon the no-fault principles).
However if we can show that we are only 3 times more likely to have an accident then surely our "premium" should be recalculated as follows $745/(16/3)=$139.60!
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Good one slofox and everyone else that's written a letter to the editor.
Here is another issue. Who the hell is it for anyone to be making normative distinctions about what is "good" for the general public and what is not. For fucks sake - riding my bike contributes to my health simply because I enjoy it, I also enjoy climbing mountains and tramping and skateboarding and cycling - these are also risk based activities.
Shit, we should levy skateboarders - didn't think of that, antisocial tagging underclass that we are.
This editorial was written by some fucking doo-gooder with an undercurrent that comes straight out of the 50s, lets ban rock n' roll while we are at it...
Bloody anti-social bikies - lets tax the mofos off the road. Tim Pankhurst lives just round the corner from me, I might give him a blast with the debaffled arrow tomorrow![]()
Well, after all that I decided to follow Winstons advice and re-sent the letter with those phrases removed.
I got published
they did abridge it - but lookee what the final result was:
New Zealand's egalitarian "fair go" spirit is embodied in the founding principles of ACC. We all chip in to cover the cost of accidental injury to any of us.
The law is caring and unique. It's something we're all rightly proud of and it helps define who we are and how we view our world.
It's under threat. Citizens are being pitted against each other while being told it's for their own good.
ACC has $11 billion in reserves and, two weeks ago, paid a $700 million dividend to the Government. ACC has never been more flush with cash and its investment arm regularly outperforms those of merchant banks, while taking care of our money.
So what's the reward for those who have achieved so much and those who fund it? The board was sacked and replaced with government cronies, and the funders - you and I - have been told to front up with a lot more cash, because it's broke.
The refrain from bikers at Parliament last week is easily understood in this light. Two serious questions are now raised: why are more people not protesting about the rape of our identity and, after motorcyclists, who's next?
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet
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AD345 just sent me this link.
Check it out
Three great letters!
Nick Smith place one advert in the dominion post.
In one paper ACC levy protestors out numbered him 3 to 1!
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