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A message for motorists in SA ...

To: "SA motoring public"@vicnet.net.au
Subject: A message for motorists in SA ...
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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 14:24:03 +1000
Road safety is something we all want, but governments increasingly ignore the 
statistical facts and focus on the most lucrative measures. Because of the 
intense government sponsored advertising, most people would be surprised to 
learn speed is responsible for less than 5% of crashes.

To support the irrational push to target speed at the expense of other more 
beneficial measures we even have researchers claiming that if you drive at 
70km/hr on a 60 zone it's the same as driving with twice the legal blood 
alcohol limit! (0.10 BAC)  Does anybody believe this?

In South Australia, both major parties have agreed to introduce demerit points 
for speed camera offences. In other states this has led to an 800% increase in 
unlicenced driving in the past five years as ever greedy governments increase 
the number of speed cameras.

As a motorist you don't need to be reminded that things are getting steadily 
worse.

Consider a protest vote in the upcoming state election.  

John R Bannon - Road Safety not Revenue Raising. (position AC)

http://johnbannon.n3.net


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