I’m a webdesigner working on a web site for the Alfred Hospital. It’s a charity website to encourage donations for their Fathers Day Appeal. Their is literally no budget for this.

The images they have given me are very very poor. I came across your image of the helicopter and wondered if I could have your permission to use this? Is this a photo you have taken? If not where dd you get it?
Cheers Damo

That’s not true of being intoxicated or fatigued. The only thing you can do is get off the road, or not get on it to begin with.

The issue I have with “speed was a factor” is that it makes for great headlines and hence masks the other issues that were more likely the root cause. Why was speed a factor? Because the guy was drunk, intoxicated, or affected by road rage?

SLOW DOWN is a KISS message, but it makes people think that if they travel slower than that number on the sign, they are somehow magically safe.

If you’re travelling at 60 in a 60 zone and see a school bus unloading with kids everywhere, you slow down. You don’t look at the school zone sign and say “it’s after 9:30 so I can keep doing 60″.

I know when my boys start driving, I’ll be making them well aware of the consequence of road trauma.

Years ago when I used to frequent aus.cars, there was a NSW police officer known as “Spooky” who had a website showing road trauma consequences. It was very sobering stuff. All victims (or their families) had given permission for the images.