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Originally Posted by Steffo

The thing is, as has been proven by the RTA's own statistics, the deaths have gone up, not down. So what does that show?

These laws are stupid, can't work, won't work and were doomed to fail before the money-hungry idiots who imposed them did so. Why not actually teach people to drive rather then saying, "Okay, people are crashing. People are starting to notice our 500 trillion speed cameras aren't stopping it. I have an idea! Lets pick on a group with little to no political influence to make ourselves look like we're doing something or that we actually care. Then we can continue to fatten our wallets. What do you say chums?"

I can find little to argue with in that statement. Driver training is the only answer. And I also think that a zero road toll is impossible unless we replace roads with rail - crashes (with resultant injuries/deaths) are simply part of the cost of the level of mobility we enjoy, and clearly we are prepared to risk it - otherwise we'd be frozen to the lounge every night following footage of the latest fatality.

So there's the reality. But it's still heartbreakingly sad when young people lose their lives in the simple act of going from A to B. And if we can keep them alive a bit longer the odds of them dying are drastically reduced.