http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victorias-ambulance-crisis-set-to-wors...

buzzanddidj wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2011 at 5:31pm:


Silly old poof Ted's taken a break just like BRUMBY did last year   FFS

National holiday road toll rises to 46
From: AAP January 03, 2011 8:03PM

THE deaths of a female pedestrian in South Australia and of a young male driver on the south coast of New South Wales today have taken the national road toll to 46.

The woman who died today after being hit by a car at Glendambo in South Australia's far north is the first fatality on South Australia's roads this Christmas-New Year holiday period.

In NSW the death of a young man when his car ran off the road and rolled at Kiama has taken the state's toll to 10.

Around the country the highest road toll is in Victoria with 16 deaths.

In Queensland 12 people have died while three people have died in both the Northern Territory and Western Australia while Tasmania has recorded one fatality. Only the ACT remained fatality free.

Responsible driving saves lives -  and I don't need large technicolour print to say that.  It's a fact. 

Taking your eyes off the road to look for cameras is a recipe for death.

http://www.safespeed.org.uk/effects.html


Big picture solutions.

Focus on 98% of road crash fatalities rather than just 2%.

It does not take huge intelligence to realise that focusing on the area where 98% of fatalities occur will save more lives than focusing almost totally on the area where not even 2% of fatalities occur.

The single greatest way to save lives on our roads is for those responsible for road safety to change their focus from solely catching drivers or riders breaking the speed limit to focusing on preventing the fatalities that occur below the speed limit.

It requires a total re-think and letting go of the obsession with speed and the miss-perception that speed kills. It does not - collisions kill.

Spend the money to build new roads.

Build new roads and re-engineer existing dangerous roads. The governments have the money. Around half the cost of every litre of fuel goes in taxes to be spent on roads - $10 billion. Only $2 billion is spent.

The State Governments receive the GST on fuel plus they install speed cameras 5 kilometres away from the so-called black spots that they or the Federal Government should have fixed.



Solution number nine - remove government greed.
The state governments are double dipping. They collect fines as well as take away drivers licence points for traffic infringements. Remove the incentive for state governments to generate income from setting and policing road rules.

Retain the loss of points system which road users fear the most but apply only a flat administration fee per infringement.

Do not allow commissions on money generated from speed camera fines to private enterprise as in Victoria.

Big picture solutions.

Focus on 98% of road crash fatalities rather than just 2%.

It does not take huge intelligence to realise that focusing on the area where 98% of fatalities occur will save more lives than focusing almost totally on the area where not even 2% of fatalities occur.

The single greatest way to save lives on our roads is for those responsible for road safety to change their focus from solely catching drivers or riders breaking the speed limit to focusing on preventing the fatalities that occur below the speed limit.It requires a total re-think and letting go of the obsession with speed and the miss-perception that speed kills. It does not - collisions kill.

Spend the money to build new roads.

Build new roads and re-engineer existing dangerous roads. The governments have the money. Around half the cost of every litre of fuel goes in taxes to be spent on roads - $10 billion. Only $2 billion is spent.

The State Governments receive the GST on fuel plus they install speed cameras 5 kilometres away from the so-called black spots that they or the Federal Government should have fixed.

http://www.roadsense.com.au/solutions.html

Solution number nine - remove government greed.
The state governments are double dipping. They collect fines as well as take away drivers licence points for traffic infringements. Remove the incentive for state governments to generate income from setting and policing road rules.

Retain the loss of points system which road users fear the most but apply only a flat administration fee per infringement.

Do not allow commissions on money generated from speed camera fines to private enterprise as in Victoria.

http://www.roadsense.com.au/solutions.html

I reposted because it was obvious that buzz had not read the data about the UK proof about speed cameras in the first link in my post, and he obviously didn't read any of the the material (which I thought was interesting)  in the road sense site.
I don't want to be killed on the roads,  if I thought speed cameras would help prevent that, Iwouldn't knock them.

http://www.safespeed.org.uk/



www.roadsense.com.au/