percentage of accidents caused by excessive speed - tell me the number

[flappist]

Originally Posted by xxx000

BENT 8 is correct with all he says

I'm tired of the term 'revenue raising' and its all too frequent use. A financial penalty along with points penalty makes most people think a little bit more about their manner of driving.
If it was all about the money as some suggest then during double demerits the govt would have doubled the fines as well as the points but they haven't.

The claim or inference by some that if the fines were removed but points remained then they'd all be happy is rubbish. The simple fact is people don't like being penalised so the argument would merely change in that case.
The bleeding obvious is that lots of people on here speed and think that they are safe doing it and try to justify it.
Yesterday I watched a motorcyclist undertake me on a single lane 50km/h road. He then undertook numerous other cars, turned right against a no right turn sign and all at probably 80 km/h+.
I'm sure he had an excuse and thinks that he is a good rider who is somehow justified in doing that but the fact is he was putting himself and others at increased risk by his stupidity. Oh and yes, surprise, surprise, he had the rego label turned to partially cover the rear plate too.
Speed cameras are just one measure to try to alter drivers behaviour but there are some on the bell curve that don't get the hint and make excuses instead.

Yep all the experts making a better world by fixing human behavior.

Speed cameras......bought to you by the people who:

Forced left handed children to write with their right hands and punishing them for non compliance..
Relocated indigenous children away from their families with no thought for the effects on the communities.
Relocated children of young unmarried mothers with no thought of the effects on the natural families and the adoptees.
Jailed and "re-educated" homosexual men.
Forced a white Australia policy.
And my personal favorite, actually committed the only success genocide in modern history when they wiped out the Tasmanian Aborigine.

Need I go on........

All of these above were Government policies for the peoples own good to solve perceived problems in society and there were just as many do-gooders on high horses attacking anyone who disagreed then as there are now.