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Location:
Melbourne
Registered:
June 2004
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The Government Lies about speeding & fatal accidents (surprise)
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Tue, 08 February 2005 02:49
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Governments LOVE cramming impressive sounding statistics down everyone's throat to justify their blatent revenue raising from speeding fines. How many of you, I ask, know about their definition of "speeding" when involved with fatal road accidents?
Of the 38% of accidents the government says involve speeding, only 2% of those involve cars travelling over the posted speed limit.
The other 36% have a mention in the police accident report relating to "excess speed for the conditions" or similar. For Example, if you're driving through a green-light doing 58 in a 60 zone, and get T-boned by someone aquaplaning (trying to stop) doing 75 in an 80 Zone, the cops will consider you to be going too fast, considering the amount of water on the road, and put this in their report.
This then gets logged, and the government pulls this out as "speeding" for their bullsh!t statistics.
Never mind that the aquaplaning car had bald tyres, and the driver was drunk - the government still pulls the mention of excessive speed out of the report as justification of speed cameras.
Does this bother anyone else?
Here's a more in-depth explaination:
http://www.roadsense.com.au/
[Updated on: Tue, 08 February 2005 02:53]
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