Victoria Lowest Ever Road Toll

[Brenny]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/victoria-records-lowest-road-toll-ever-in-2011/story-fn7x8me2-1226259073764

There is the story...

However, there is one stat in that article that flabbergasts me the most.

First off, here is the breakdown. The bold red, is the stat that staggers me the most. How is it, in 2011, people still don't wear seatbelts! Same goes for the motor bike riders and their helmets...

Personally, I don't get it. You get in the car and put the seatbelt on, or get on a bike and put a helmet on!

The final road toll results show that in 2011 (data compared with 2010):

� There were 129 deaths in metropolitan Melbourne, up from 125 in 2010;
� There were 158 deaths in country Victoria, down from 163 in 2010;
� Victoria recorded 5.1 deaths per 100,000 population compared to 5.91 in the rest of Australia in 2011;
� There were 49 pedestrian deaths, an increase of 26 per cent;
� People aged over 70 accounted for 16 pedestrian fatalities (32 per cent), 12 people killed were aged 80 or above (24 per cent);
� Forty-nine fatalities (17 per cent) were motorcyclists, equal to 2010 but an increase of four on the five year average;
� Five of the motorcyclists (13 per cent) were not wearing a helmet;
� Of the eight fatalities involving cyclists, 50 per cent (four) were not wearing a helmet;
� Heavy vehicles were involved in 38 fatal collisions (15 per cent), a decrease of 21 per cent;
� Thirty-six (26 per cent) of drivers and passengers killed were not wearing a seatbelt.

[watt price tully]

^ it is amazing in this day & age people don't wear helmets & seatbelts.
I think you can add (in red) that 4 of the 8 bicyclkists killed were not wearing helmets.

This morning another cyclist killed - by a small truck in Epping:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/cyclist-dies-after-hit-by-truck-in-epping/story-fn7x8me2-1226259029677

[Brenny]

What makes me go wow is motor bike riders who wear shorts t-shirt and runners when riding... with a helmet. May aswell forget the helmet in that case.

Obviously never had gravel burn.

[Nick - Pie Man]

They back themselves and their ability to not get into an accident in the first place. Good on em

[Dragme]

A mate of mine is an ambo officer.
He tells me some crashes look like they have deliberately run into trees etc.

If you were that way inclined, you would probably deliberately leave the seat belt off.

[Brenny]

I'm sure there are far more deaths on the road than the report says. I'm wondering if they leave off the ones, where it's plausible that they drove into a tree without a seatbelt on purpose.

[What'sinaname]

Darwin's theory of natural selection in action

[think positive]

Saw a motor bike prang single vehicle accident, his leathers and leather jacket were shredded, just imagine a t shirt and shorts, ouch!

[stui magpie]

[Brenny]

^ Difference is, a motor bike doing 50-60 is much diff to a bike rider in a 50-60 zone doing 20-30km.

Either way, in that 50-60km zone I wouldn't want to come off either of them.


Ok going down hill is different... I'll hand you that.

[stui magpie]

[Black_White]

So, let me bet this straight.
We have more cars than ever on our foads.
Our carts, in the main, are safer than ever.
We have recorded a low death toll.
Yet there is an increase in speed cameras, being set at places that don't have a "black" history.
Can any government still hide behind the "safety" excuse?

[stui magpie]

[mandy]

I don't wear a seatbelt if I've just had a spraytan.

[stui magpie]

^

But you wear clothes?