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Dodgy Government / Police One-Sided Thinking

Tue, 06 January 2004 04:55

This small article was in the paper today:

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Reckless young drivers were blamed yesterday for adding to the road toll as police struggled to explain how 81 people lost thier lives on Australian roads this holiday period.

It was one of the worst Christmas/New Year tolls in recent years, leaving authorities at a loss on how to better deliver the road safety message. Twenty-four of the deaths were in NSW.

Acting Prime Minister and Transport Minister John Anderson said speed and the recklessness of yound drivers were key factors. "There are still too many young people... who think when they're behind the wheel of a car that they're invincible," he told 2UE

I am sick to death of young people and speed being automatically blamed for everything. Police struggling to explain the high road toll? It must be young people then because only they would cause accidents.

Forget about 65+ year olds driving down from the North Coast and getting tired and falling asleep. If that was to happen, it must have been some young person speeding that ran into them.

Forget about a middle aged person running into the back of a semi-trailer. Some young person in another car must have been egging them on for them to do something like that.

I could go on and on and on and on. But I wont because the post would take up 2 pages. But I just wish the government would stop automatically blaming speed and young people for everything bad that happens. If they actually did some proper research they would find out what the REAL problems are and start fixing them up.

IMO as long as they keep their one sided approach going (that is speed kills) then the road toll is never going to go down by alot. I reckon that me driving my car along Pennant Hills Rd (70 speed limit on 3 lane road) at say 80k's, is not nearly as dangerous as some old/nervous driver driving along at 60k's.

I have so much more I would love to say, but I will leave the rest to you guys..... Very Happy

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