Thats where you are wrong. As it is an accident and as such ACC picks up the tab for the whole thing.Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve
And you don't get as many donuts for 300K as you might have thought.
troglodytam extraordinaire
Thats where you are wrong. As it is an accident and as such ACC picks up the tab for the whole thing.
And you don't get as many donuts for 300K as you might have thought.
Anarchic Wild Child
Isn't it ???? Then it's certainly about people like him preaching to people LIKE me ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
God's Evil Twin
You telling me ACC pay the cops, pay the fire, pay the ambo over & above what the Govt is already paying them???
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Anarchic Wild Child
Happened to be one the other day in the Coromandel I believe - cornered too fast, crossed the centre-line and head on into another bike ... another last year (I believe) in the Nelson area - high speed and head on into another bike ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
iGASM, not made by Apple
So you're telling me that it costs around $120 million a year average to clean up road fatalities. (Averaging 400 deaths per year)
Ok, I'll try an itemised receipt.
Ambo: $20,000
Fire: $20,000
Police: $20,000
Removal of vehicle: $20,000
Coroner: $20,000
Investigation: $20,000
Coffee and Donuts: $180,000
Even being generous I can not fathom 300K
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Anarchic Wild Child
Shit ... save all the money ... leave the body where it is as a warning to other road users ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Hardcore Biker
Cool so just 2 in recent years...not bad score considering road toll is 400-ish a year.
Come warm yourself by the fire
Not such a dumb idea as it sounds.
I mean I have never crashed where others have crashed if they body + bike/car was still there.
I have always waited for them to clean it up before I crashed there.
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God's Evil Twin
hey I want my 69K per body given current rates thats like 27M per year or something i think.
Science Is But An Organized System Of Ignorance"Pornography: The thing with billions of views that nobody watches" - WhiteManBehindADesk
Come warm yourself by the fire
Hate to say it man.
But someone who crashes at high speed - usually doesn't get to have these kinds of speeches.....
Not really food for thought as it is shoving a box of dry wheetbix down your throat. But its true.
Not saying I don't do it myself........just saying that WHEN I die, if this is the cause, not doubt in my mind that people will say it as it is.
Dead heroes and motorbikes. Speed just makes it quicker.
We all pick our poisons and exits.......(huh that sounds like that Shakespeare thing....what is it? Lifes a stage?)
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Forum whore
It has happened four times in the last 2-3 years that I'm aware of, resulting in the deaths of 6 motorcyclists.
That's one of the things that fucks me off most - motorcyclists don't even seemed to be bothered considering the safety of other motorcyclists these days.
Hardcore Biker
Crossing centre line on a bike is a never good idea... whether the motorcyclists are bothered by safety of others or not.
Admitedly we are talking about less than 0.25-0.5% of the road toll here...
mini meeeeeee
I take it as speed limits being about minimising the potential for accidents; as for "if we all diligently do.....30kph" well, we'll never know will we because the likelihood of it ever happening (and being observed) is non-existent.
I don't expect legislation to protect me from other road users - but I do expect my own responsibility to protect myself and those sharing the road with me from me. Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if everyone on the road placed priority on ensuring self protection and as a tangent from that protecting others from themselves. Oh nos, that might mean I have to ride/drive in a responsible manner and that automatically means I can never have fun!!!
Woo hoo, that would be pretty graphic road kill - eeewww, two possums, five hedgehogs, a couple of pukekos and three riders.
I lahk to moove eet moove eet...
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Forum whore
Think of all the employment created for 300k. Cops, ambos, towies, undertakers etc. They all deserve employment too.
Hardcore Biker
Each time I am having fun...someone pulls me over and tells me i was having the "fun" too fast.
Even though i try to tell them i was being responsible and if they observed me for bit longer they would see that it was definitely in responsible manner...they still make me pay them some money in the end. They call it some kind of "fun tax" and i just think its unfair....
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