J_D
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Hairy Eater said:on thursday 10 August... few days ago... at about 11 am this 44 year old man hit a power pole, snapping it off at ground level and KILLING his passenger... dont know his condition but he lived... this was in a 22,000 populaton small town (Mt Isa)..... doesnt seem age matters here...
Did the media say anything about them hooning?
Age only matters if your young as the media will trump it up as a young hoon even if there is no evidence they were one. When you look at the easter/christmas road toll hype I notice that most deaths are middle age people doing such stupid things as hitting trucks head on, I mean how hard is it to stay on the right side of the road! In fact when you look at the number of crashes per km travelled, young people dont fair as badly as the media would have us believe. Young people do a lot more km's than older people, the fleet average is only 15000 km, I do more than that in 3 months. So if I am spending 4 times more time on the road than the average driver, then my risk of a crash is a lot higher. Our road toll is amazingly low compared to 30 odd years ago. In QLD vehicle registrations went up 216% between 1973 and 2003 yet road fatalities went down by 44%. Thats an actual decrease of 84%! Yet we here about none of this in the media, just the bad stuff as usual. The increasing crackdown by authorities is the result of the media. The govt only does what the media tell it to do. In the great scheme of things the road toll is of little importance.
Causes of Death (2004 stats).
Transport accidents:1689
Alzheimers:1766
Suicide:2098
Breast cancer:2641
Prostate cancer:2761
Colon cancer:2784
Influenza:3381
Mental disorders:3414
Lung cancer:7264
Heart disease:32138
But car accidents pull in more ratings with pictures of car wrecks than people with cancer etc.
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