These are the only measures EVER taken by authorities that have done any good.

Having Cars that can only do 110 at the max would reduce the deaths on our roads i think!.

& also if the fat lazy pigs got off there ass’s and actually you know did there job are breatho people and drug test people would also help insted of sitting in their car with the camera on it.!

– make the value of the fine consider the financial income of the individual

i.e. this is not for profit but rather awareness to the population control which, obviously is the climate goal of the governments pursuit to their forever growing list of various fines

– notice the growth in population and you can see that their attempt is working but i think this is a large waste of tax dollars which we can use or at least attempt to save for the Australian economy

i say that last point because in case you are living a dream, getting “work” done in Australia is really expensive.

well, its our lives we play with – its up to the population to understand this.

Bad drivers are an economy, those who gain the most start at the top with the Judges and Lawyers (mostly pollies best friends), Insurance agents etc. many others that earn in between all the way down to the smash repairers, spare parts distributors and of course the tow truck drivers who all depend on bad drivers to help fill their pockets.

Many people stand to lose too much money if laws were made to remove the bad/incompetent drivers from the road, the unfortunate lives that are lost are the sacrafice made for the sake of one more dollar.

One thing that astounds me is we are all afraid of a Great White Shark, Saltwater Croc, King Brown Snake or a Funnel Web Spider but they not nearly kill as much as bad drivers do. We almost made the Great White become extinct from our fear of them. But we see a bad driver and think of it as the normal thing. Even though the chances are they will take your life or a loved one are much higher then any creature.

I was pulled over a couple of months ago in the work truck that was going uphill and lucky to hit the low 60k’s in a 60 zone. I had not more than half hour ago passed the police as I was going the opposite way back to the depot so I knew they were waiting there. I was passed by a speeding driver I thought the police for sure was going to book but they insisted pulling me over, I asked why did they pull me over for and was informed it was a truck check, I asked why he didnt he bother with the speeding motorist that wouldve been doing at least 80+k’s his answer was “We weren’t after him we were after you” with a smartass grin on his face. After me because truck fines are quite more substantial then normal car fines.

Its all Money before safety!

I could be wrong?

This is from South Africa.

German road death toll lowest in 55 years

February 26, 2008

Fewer people died on German roads in 2007 than at any time since 1953, the year in which the government began to keep records.

The Federal Statistics Office said the death toll, at 4970, was 2.4 percent lower than 2006 but the number of road injuries rose by 2.2 percent during the same period to 431 500

Safer cars meant fewer deaths – ADAC
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The number of accidents also increased, by 2.7 percent to to 2.3-million.

Germany’s major motoring organisation, the ADAC, said better car crash protection features had helped to keep more people alive. Better roads, safer motorways and better driving instruction also contributed.

There are around 42-million cars in Germany’s – not counting the thousands that pass through daily en route to other countries across Europe.

South Africa’s annual road death toll is around 30 000 – Sapa-DPA