In a nutshell, the story below says that alcohol has been the major cause of death on NT roads since 2005. This article is not really news and I don't know why they have run with it because there is nothing new in it.
What upsets me, again, is the fact that the non-wearing of seat belts is the second highest cause of death but this is moved further down in the story, whilst speeding is promoted to second place in the story even though it is the third cause of death.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2007/09/18/2083_ntnews.html
In fact, as you can see, alcohol was the cause of 60 deaths, no seat belts 49 deaths, and speeding 23 deaths.
So, even though speeding is a distant third to seat belts, and in fact speeding related deaths were less than half of seat belt related deaths, it is still second promoted to second in the article.
What a load of rot!
Too bad Rennie did not mention that the NT has the lowest incidence of speed related deaths in Australia.
Hey Rennie, you're an idiot.
So exactly what speed did these accidents occur at, I bet the police can't tell us.
Speeding can mean below the speed limit, but to fast for the conditions. Dirt road, raining, so on and so on.
Propaganda no more no less
The average person does not realise this "Speeding can mean below the speed limit, but to fast for the conditions" and is one of the governments mantras for making money.
Thank you for your post and be assured that we will blow the lid of this form of propaganda big time soon.
This is what I call "speed-limit conditioning". Its effect reduces individuality; results in carelessness and disinterest in quality of driving manner, on long trips typically - fatigue etc.
The revenue bit is government stuff, fines prediction income is typically made by a jurisdictions Attorney General.
We do need to improve by ADR and ARR a vehicles required standard equipment list.