Mad dogs, drug addicts...

[marty]

an excerpt of comment on a World Health Organisation report, seems to follow what our LTSA says (or does the LTSA follow WHO?) some will say they are all working in a conspiriacy to take more hard earned $$$ off us...

"The report, prepared over 18 months by 100 experts, sketches a grim picture of one of the costs of growing prosperity in the developing world, where traffic deaths are expected to rise by 80 per cent by 2020 as hundreds of millions of cars go on the roads.

The 217-page document lays out action that rapidly developing countries - especially India, China and in South-East Asia - can take to try to lessen the carnage. They include stricter enforcement of traffic laws, more use of seatbelts, better road design and improved vehicle design and inspection."

[marty]

this table

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/8/51/2730851.pdf

would suggest that we are nowhere near the top of the list for managing to get our roal toll down. i suggest to you complainers to go to melbourne, the netherlands, switzerland et. al, and try to get away with speeding in the wrong place/wrong time. i have done over 1000kms on my bike and about 500k towing a trailer in the last 10 days, seen 2 (obvious) camera vans and one HP unit. if i didn't see any others they weren't lookin at me either, as i was giving them plenty to look at. and if you think being held up for a couple of minutes at a check point is a hassle - in melbourne the TAG units block SIX lanes of highway and breath test (not just sniffer test) EVERY driver.

[spudchucka]

Lou, sure the figure has climbed by a small amount but when measured against the exta vehicle on the road and total kilometres driven the trend is still downwards as a percentage - I have access to the figure and if I had a scanner I would print them out for you, believe me it is not quite how the doomsayers tell you.

Lou only sees what he wants to see and only quotes figures that will help to convince others that his delluded perception of the world is correct.

[Skyryder]

Sorry, but accident figures don't agree with you. Since the advent of high profile, rigid enforcement 4 years ago, which reportedly has reduced average speeds by 2 - 3 km/h, fatal and injury accidents have steadily risen.
Somethings not working.
Lou

My theory on the 'something is not working' is that today we have more things to do and less time to do it in. I think this is the problem. It is simply one of being organised as against being "rushed." No amount of driver education is going to fix an unorganised person. And the sad thing is more people today seem to live their entire lives in disarray. Couple this with indifference and a common lack of courtesy to other road users and this I believe is the cause of what we see on the roads today.

Skyryder