Lets blame the Motorcyclist again.
Police say SPEED and rain may have been involved. Maybe the fuc@@@@ driver of the car had something to do with it as well. Maybe the car pulling out of the side street had something to do with it.
Lets just dumb things down, then all our problems will be gone.
Every now and then some common sense!!!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/28/2403514.htm
A Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Officer has likened this years high road toll to a war zone.
Accidents on Territory roads have led to 66 deaths so far this year.
Nick Bell says staff have been rocked by this years high road toll and have required more grief counselling than ever before.
"The best way I can describe it sometimes it's like downtown Beirut.
"It's like a bomb has gone off and it's just peoples lives shattered and smashed everywhere."
"We get there and it's a very confronting scene and it's difficult.
"All the guys say the same thing, this hollywood version of you get there and you be really professional. Of course we are but we feel this very very much."
Officer Bell says a 'shock' education program is needed to curb the high rate of road fatalities.
He says if drivers were shown what their actions could lead to, they'd think twice before drink driving.
"The people that have survived the accidents are walking around and they are looking at their smashed friends and family as the guys are cutting them out of the vehicles.
"It is shocking and confronting stuff and people have to understand that there's consequences for those actions."
NT criminal lawyer Mark Johnson agrees education is the best way to reduce the road toll.
He's warned against policy makers creating tougher laws to address the problem.
"The situation with the Northern Territory is we already have the highest rate of imprisonment in the whole country.
"We have a greater proportion of people in our jails then any of the other states or territories so to say that we're going to put more people in jail is not the answer.
"It is a situation of saying we've got to be able to get messages through to them by education."
The road toll for the Northern Territory for 2008 to 26 October is 66.
For the same period last year (itself a decade-high result, AND the first full year of rural speed limits that replaced speed derestriction allowance) the road toll was 40.
Well done 'experts', Harold and like-minded supporters of dumbed-down driver requirement, you have achieved much in the promotion of complacency and carelessness!
The road toll is offiically a disaster, three killed in two days, click on the link to see story in NT News:
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/11/06/14211_ntnews.html
As a result of the above tragedies, the toll stands at 69 compared to 44 at the same time last year.
NT's Labor government should hang their heads in shame, it's an absolute disgrace!
Brilliant safety program, results all delivered at a time of high fuel cost, and reduced discretionary travel.
NT Road toll for 2008 to date is now 70, 26 more than for NT's decade-high result last year.
2009 *cannot* get worse. 2008 is year two of NT's imposition of speed-limits on rural roads, red light cameras, demirit points and other exciting concepts adopt from interstate.
Hopeless, really.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/13/2418820.htm
http://uninews.cqu.edu.au/UniNews/viewStory.do?story=5250
No idea at all.
http://www.nt.gov.au/pfes/PFES/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&p=148
The road toll for the Northern Territory for 2008 to 21 November is now 70,
When you look at the facts it is clear that there has been a statistically significant increased number of road fatalties since the introduction of the Labor Governments raft of new road rules.
It is not working plain and simple.
Fatigue not speed is the dominant factor for road fatalities on Territorian highways. The imposition of a speed limit only compounds this problem.
Please send an email to your local member and ask them to remove the speed limit on the open road. We must keep informing them of the facts and not let misguided opinion and profit run our Territory.
The NT road toll in 2008 was the worst in some 20 years, and this just two years after the NT Labor government introduced a raft of laws to reduce the road toll. Geniuses, not!!
It is appalling in this day and age that this can happen, where is the accountability? Let's put another spin on this. Say you were a car manufacturer and you decided to remove some safety features from your cars to reduce costs and thereby resulting in more deaths. If this were allowed to happen, people would be up in arms.(BTW think this cannot happen? Something similar did happen in the USA in the 70's when a particular car was so bad it was deemed a deathtrap and the manufacturer was being sued. I think the car was the Ford Pinto. Anyway, Ford did a cost benefits analysis and with the help of actuaries worked out that they could live with a certain number of deaths a year, and the subsequent lawsuits, so they continued to make the car).
Governments on the other hand, seem to be able to do whatever they like without fear of retribution and safe in the knowledge, I presume, that they cannot be sued. No one is accountable and the people it seems, do not care.
A council on the NSW central coast failed to maintain a section of road that subsequently collapsed and five (5), yes five people swerpt to their deaths. A woman in NSW went in for a very simple operation, contracted pneumonia at the hospital, was sent home because of lack of beds, and died. People in QLD have bee literally dying in ambulances in the car park whilst the ambo's try to get them in.
In none of these cases has anybody been accountable, and nobody it seems is being sued. How can this be? There are many, many stories like these over the past 10 years or so and it all coincides with the long rule of the states and territories by Labor governments.
From what I can gather, the NT road toll on December 27 stood at 75. The official end of year figure I presume is still being calculated because it is not on the NT Police website, I had to find the toll elsewhere, and here it is:
http://www.roadsafety.nt.gov.au/stats/index.shtml
The NT Labor governments road safety measures have been a complete and utter failure which is, unfortunately, a massive understatement. Heads should roll over this, and I think the minister for transport, Delia Lawrie, should resign or be sacked, as should the police commissioner Paul White. Protests should be held because the current Labor government has blood on its hands due to its inept and ill conceived policies.
Personally I am outraged, but I know what will happen. Nothing. Why? Because Australians are generally stupid but most of all, they are complacent, and weak.
As stated previously, the NT Labor governments road laws introduced on 1 January 2007 have been a complete failure. Over the past two years the road toll has been 30% and 70% higher, respectively, than the last year (ie 2006) prior to the new road rules.
Lastly, the road toll in 2008 was the worst since 1987 when 84 people were killed on NT roads.