Another four killed
This morning around 3/30am Ceduna S.A.
4 young local men killed when holden hits tree, wasted,
as info is released the pattern will be seen
Another 3 near Hobart late yesterday - seen doing around 100 in a 50 zone, left road and met trees. No info on ages yet, but I'd bet left testicle they were under 25. Waste.
More needless carnage.....
Sat morning 1.30am a heap of young blokes entre a garage and take an old falcon being worked on. partying . fulla dutch courage and meybe some weed or other, feelum good time stuff. Speed ,alcohol, no lights, bad decisions, peer pressure. They wind it all around a powerpole. Two die almost imediately, other injury's. They were mates at a birthday party. Loss of life....LOL..LOL..not needed.
Also young 16 yo bloke out with young lady, manages to put car into big tree, young lady, her life is destroyed, fighting for just her life, in coma, if she comes out of it will she have a life as she was entitled too and expecting, wasted
I know you can make statistics to say anything but the stats in NSW tell us the following:
The number of road fatalities per 100,000 people has been below 10 since 1996.
Between 1951 and 1982 the number of fatalities per 100,000 people was over 20.
The number of road kills per 100,000 people peaked in 1978 and has been dropping since.
Its pretty unlikely human behaviour has changed all that much in the last 30 years. Old farts were complaining about how stupid and disrepectful kids were 3000 years ago.
What has changed are laws relating to seatbelts and drink driving, along with generally safer cars and roads.
There were killer kids back in the good old days as there will be killer kids in 100 years time.
And another, 6.30 last evening, 19 yo male into a tree, deceased, major arterial straight access rd into Adelaide. I wonder if it were one of those kid racers who when you drive that road they weave in and out the lanes at about one third faster than the speed of the traffic flow.
Where are you going,young fella,
What,s going on in your head?
Is it a game that you play.
as you speed to your appointment with death.?
Well if the old farts and slow drivers had respect and decided to get over in the old farts lane and not be so inconciderate mabe some drivers couyld even travel in a staight line with out flutuating there speed
/Whats the use of cruise control when the person in front cant drive
some people deserve to die on the roads.
There just as many dumb slow drivers as there is speeders.
some people are born dumb and they should drive slow so when they do hit somthn they dont die.
These drivers are dumb and will have accidents what ever the speed
the next one has occurred in this state. Sadly the passenger was killed, his mate ,the driver shot thru. Three others injured
all involved here .this is a forum for discussion, sorta mens/womens business and i think that by keeping up with the problem, some , some people may find of benefit. Enough to give it a thought. Even us brash beachys have done some ill conceived things.
I don't wish to give a morbid count, i wish there were no count. I would have thought that some bright youngsters associated with these forums may have some interesting input into why. I think the discussion has been interesting up to this point.
The way i look at it is that if we [the people] are concerned and wondering what could be the problem, actual cause of this epidemic. It will show others who read and don't post and there could be string pullers doing this. that we , the beachy type of Aussie blokes and girls are concerned, so then the hidden readers and watchers may or may not discuss this with their circle of friends and acquaintances. Power to the forum !
Power to you Joe, put it in their face. I see too much of it in my job and anything that can be done to prevent it is all good! The evidence that I have seen has pointed to young (and sometimes old) drivers using our roads as a race track, laying their motorbikes over like Mick Doohan through the bends or drifting like they're in Tokyo. People need to learn that the roads are for everybody, show some R E S P E C T and use the roads for what they are intended - getting from A to B. I agree that parents teach respect and sometimes stupid breeds stupid.
Is South Australia the state of Australia where you have the greatest chance of dying in a fatal traffic related incident? Stats that were added to last evening, 18yo. It would seem to indicate that this is a rising problem. Passengers in cars are suffering as much as the drivers. So are their friends. The death toll in S.A. is near double of this time last year. Be careful if you enter upon our roads here.
Should drivers of crashing cars be obliged to crash the drivers side of the vehicle into the stobie poles and trees instead of the passenger side. Could we make this legislation. Give the world your ideas thru this forum. The legislators are looking out for ideas from outside the circle, watching .
Let's all admit it folks. SPEEDING IS TOTAL FUN!!!
When I am screaming down a beach in my land yacht on the fine edge of control, and the slightest mistake means I can out big time, I am totally LOVING IT.
When a surfer catches a big wave and is screaming along the face of it on the fine edge of control, and knows the slightest mistake will mean a huge can out, he is totally LOVING IT.
Kite/wind surfing, stand up paddle, land kiting, sailing, car and motor bike racing, all of them are things we do to satisfy our "Need for Speed" and we all like to show off a bit, ie be the winner.
So let's all accept that the "Need for Speed" is a part of human nature and needs to have suitable outlets.
Public roads are obviously not a suitable outlet place.
Three concepts to consider:-
1. Provide suitable venues for the desired outlet activity.
2. Redirect the need into other activities.
3. Combine both of the previous.
Cheers Cisco
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SE queensland sure is a great place to live, but seems to be the redneck capital when it comes to road safety, or safety in general
if a native southeast queenslander drove in australia's far southern states the way they do in qld, they'd either be broke very quickly from fines, have black eyes from copping a 1 2 because they were tailgating or not indicating, or dead very quickly because of the terrible winter road conditions
the highly predictable and reliable weather here is probably what's balancing out the road statistics for qld
Well sadly common sense ain't common, so trying to educate people is only going to have so much impact. So added to education, here's a few suggestions about how this waste and carnage could be cut back quite a bit:
1. Fit a speed immobiliser to existing cars and have the manufacturing industry make it standard in new cars, to ensure they don't go faster than 120km. That still gives a bit extra over the speed limit for overtaking, but will stop some of the horror high speed crashes.
2. Fit every car with a "blow-under-the-limit-or-it-won't-start" immobiliser. Yeah, I know, you can always get a sober person to blow, but it will help.
3. Take away anyone's license caught DUI for good - that might be a bit more a preventative than what is currently being dished out as punishment. Ok, maybe give it back when that person reaches 30 if they are younger than 25 - we are all supposed, after all, to learn from our mistakes. The older ones should've known better though - sucked in.
4. Get rid of all the distractions in cars: simplify ipod docking thingos and other music gizmos in cars - on/off/next/back and that's it, no searching through a digital screen for your favourite song instead of watching the road...;
dvd movies (??? how the hell did our parents entertain us...oh yeah, that's right, they didn't, we entertained ourselves...);
fit "mobile phone blockers" into the car body somehow, texting and driving should NEVER be allowed to happen! To all you knockers of not having the luxury of your mobile in the car, or passengers losing their right to use their phone...get over it. We used to use phone boxes or wait till we got home... There's still the option to pull over and get out anyway.
I could probably think up more, but I'm off outside now to breathe a bit of fresh air and enjoy the slow life :) Will be interesting to come back and see what people think...
Darwins theory of natural selection is at work here I think. The week die and the stronger well get stronger. Or the smart ones live the dumb ones die, its quiet simple really!!
