Road deaths are largely predictable and preventable — a fact public health experts have sought to underscore by discouraging use of the word “accident” when it comes to road crashes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-25/e ... 89/9353794
This is every road death since 1989
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Re: This is every road death since 1989
Interesting the graph of death by age group, it drops off quite a bit after 80yrs of age but does not differentiate between drivers, passengers and pedestrians or even cyclists, yet there is not the same drop in persons aged less than 80 and those aged 81 or more.
So, is it the licence test at 80 reducing older drivers? or people suddenly stop travelling in vehicles or walking near roads or riding bicycles or pillion passenger on motorbikes? Statistics can be read to mean all sorts of things unless they are narrowed down to a lot more specific data.
An interesting read on statistics is road accident resulting in death linked to alcohol effected driver with a blood alcohol reading greater than 0.05, the legal limit to drive on the road. It can be interpreted that drivers with absolutely no alcohol in their system are far more likely to have an accident causing death than those effected by excessive amounts of alcohol.
I'm not saying that alcohol does not effect driving skills, what I'm saying is statistics can be read to say anything you want. In reality I don't believe it is alcohol that causes the reduction in driving skills but rather the fatigue effect it causes in some people and it is a fatigue test that needs to be created and used at the random testing stations, that would cover drivers effected by over the counter drugs, prescription drugs and simply too tired to drive safely. Let's face it, the older one gets the quicker fatigue can set in, but then again, is that the state of fitness or age related?
We definitely need to do something, are driverless cars the answer?
T1 Terry
So, is it the licence test at 80 reducing older drivers? or people suddenly stop travelling in vehicles or walking near roads or riding bicycles or pillion passenger on motorbikes? Statistics can be read to mean all sorts of things unless they are narrowed down to a lot more specific data.
An interesting read on statistics is road accident resulting in death linked to alcohol effected driver with a blood alcohol reading greater than 0.05, the legal limit to drive on the road. It can be interpreted that drivers with absolutely no alcohol in their system are far more likely to have an accident causing death than those effected by excessive amounts of alcohol.
I'm not saying that alcohol does not effect driving skills, what I'm saying is statistics can be read to say anything you want. In reality I don't believe it is alcohol that causes the reduction in driving skills but rather the fatigue effect it causes in some people and it is a fatigue test that needs to be created and used at the random testing stations, that would cover drivers effected by over the counter drugs, prescription drugs and simply too tired to drive safely. Let's face it, the older one gets the quicker fatigue can set in, but then again, is that the state of fitness or age related?
We definitely need to do something, are driverless cars the answer?
T1 Terry
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