Another 3 near Hobart late yesterday - seen doing around 100 in a 50 zone, left road and met trees. No info on ages yet, but I'd bet left testicle they were under 25. Waste.

Its happening....seems like, Thursday night, Everyones got money...lets, do it

More needless carnage.....
Sat morning 1.30am a heap of young blokes entre a garage and take an old falcon being worked on. partying . fulla dutch courage and meybe some weed or other, feelum good time stuff. Speed ,alcohol, no lights, bad decisions, peer pressure. They wind it all around a powerpole. Two die almost imediately, other injury's. They were mates at a birthday party. Loss of life....LOL..LOL..not needed.

Also young 16 yo bloke out with young lady, manages to put car into big tree, young lady, her life is destroyed, fighting for just her life, in coma, if she comes out of it will she have a life as she was entitled too and expecting, wasted

And another, 6.30 last evening, 19 yo male into a tree, deceased, major arterial straight access rd into Adelaide. I wonder if it were one of those kid racers who when you drive that road they weave in and out the lanes at about one third faster than the speed of the traffic flow.

Where are you going,young fella,
What,s going on in your head?
Is it a game that you play.
as you speed to your appointment with death.?

j murray said...

And another, 6.30 last evening, 19 yo male into a tree, deceased, major arterial straight access rd into Adelaide. I wonder if it were one of those kid racers who when you drive that road they weave in and out the lanes at about one third faster than the speed of the traffic flow.

Where are you going,young fella,
What,s going on in your head?
Is it a game that you play.
as you speed to your appointment with death.?

Give it a break, you wouldn't have a clue why that happened, give some respect to family and friends.
It's not just young fellas who hit trees and it can happen for lots of reasons.

the next one has occurred in this state. Sadly the passenger was killed, his mate ,the driver shot thru. Three others injured

FormulaNova said...

Instead of giving a running tally, why do you think there are so many car accidents in SA with young kids? How would you solve the problem?

How to solve the problem?...."keep it in the faces of the community" untill it becomes uncomfortable, buy brushing it under the carpet and ignoring the problem doesn't stop it happening it just makes it "out of site out of mind"
Its going to take a serious "accident" involving a Snr. politicians family before things get done..

FormulaNova said...

Are there any common factors to these crashes? Is there a way to reduce these factors?

YES there are many common factors, and they are the age of the drivers, the speed of the cars, and the risky behaviour....

One person alone can't change the situation it takes a concerned community to change the mindset of those involved.....

Power to you Joe, put it in their face. I see too much of it in my job and anything that can be done to prevent it is all good! The evidence that I have seen has pointed to young (and sometimes old) drivers using our roads as a race track, laying their motorbikes over like Mick Doohan through the bends or drifting like they're in Tokyo. People need to learn that the roads are for everybody, show some R E S P E C T and use the roads for what they are intended - getting from A to B. I agree that parents teach respect and sometimes stupid breeds stupid.

j murray said...

Is South Australia the state of Australia where you have the greatest chance of dying in a fatal traffic related incident? Stats that were added to last evening, 18yo. It would seem to indicate that this is a rising problem. Passengers in cars are suffering as much as the drivers. So are their friends. The death toll in S.A. is near double of this time last year. Be careful if you enter upon our roads here.
Should drivers of crashing cars be obliged to crash the drivers side of the vehicle into the stobie poles and trees instead of the passenger side. Could we make this legislation. Give the world your ideas thru this forum. The legislators are looking out for ideas from outside the circle, watching .

I haven't seen any of SA other than a short trip to Adelaide, but you mentioned there was a fatality near Ceduna. Are the guys there just bored and the only thing for them to do that is interesting is to have a drink and go for a drive?

I think you realize that in a lot of accidents it is the passenger side of the car that fares worse just because it is closer to the side of the road and the driver has more tarmac on his side to get out of trouble if he strays across the road.

Unfortunately, the passengers have to accept that they are placing their trust in the driver and as such have to wear some of the responsibility.

If you wanted a direct answer to your question on how to try and resolve the problem, give young people low powered cars while they are in the years where risk taking is at its worst. Of course this doesn't help anyone that decides they want to drive something faster.

Give them all 2litre automatic econovans! With half a tonne of firewood in the back.

Let's all admit it folks. SPEEDING IS TOTAL FUN!!!

When I am screaming down a beach in my land yacht on the fine edge of control, and the slightest mistake means I can out big time, I am totally LOVING IT.

When a surfer catches a big wave and is screaming along the face of it on the fine edge of control, and knows the slightest mistake will mean a huge can out, he is totally LOVING IT.

Kite/wind surfing, stand up paddle, land kiting, sailing, car and motor bike racing, all of them are things we do to satisfy our "Need for Speed" and we all like to show off a bit, ie be the winner.

So let's all accept that the "Need for Speed" is a part of human nature and needs to have suitable outlets.

Public roads are obviously not a suitable outlet place.

Three concepts to consider:-
1. Provide suitable venues for the desired outlet activity.
2. Redirect the need into other activities.
3. Combine both of the previous.
Cheers Cisco.

Well sadly common sense ain't common, so trying to educate people is only going to have so much impact. So added to education, here's a few suggestions about how this waste and carnage could be cut back quite a bit:

1. Fit a speed immobiliser to existing cars and have the manufacturing industry make it standard in new cars, to ensure they don't go faster than 120km. That still gives a bit extra over the speed limit for overtaking, but will stop some of the horror high speed crashes.

2. Fit every car with a "blow-under-the-limit-or-it-won't-start" immobiliser. Yeah, I know, you can always get a sober person to blow, but it will help.

3. Take away anyone's license caught DUI for good - that might be a bit more a preventative than what is currently being dished out as punishment. Ok, maybe give it back when that person reaches 30 if they are younger than 25 - we are all supposed, after all, to learn from our mistakes. The older ones should've known better though - sucked in.

4. Get rid of all the distractions in cars: simplify ipod docking thingos and other music gizmos in cars - on/off/next/back and that's it, no searching through a digital screen for your favourite song instead of watching the road...;
dvd movies (??? how the hell did our parents entertain us...oh yeah, that's right, they didn't, we entertained ourselves...);
fit "mobile phone blockers" into the car body somehow, texting and driving should NEVER be allowed to happen! To all you knockers of not having the luxury of your mobile in the car, or passengers losing their right to use their phone...get over it. We used to use phone boxes or wait till we got home... There's still the option to pull over and get out anyway.

I could probably think up more, but I'm off outside now to breathe a bit of fresh air and enjoy the slow life :) Will be interesting to come back and see what people think...

Darwins theory of natural selection is at work here I think. The week die and the stronger well get stronger. Or the smart ones live the dumb ones die, its quiet simple really!!

doggie said...

Darwins theory of natural selection is at work here I think. The week die and the stronger well get stronger. Or the smart ones live the dumb ones die, its quiet simple really!!

The only problem with your suggestion is that the same people that take high risks with driving might just be the same as those that are taking a lot of risks in other areas and you don't need to be a genius to have kids.

It's not so simple when you look at it. Maybe the 'dumb ones' are having many more kids and will result in a larger 'dumb' population?

doggie said...

It wasnt a sugestion its fact...

That's the great thing about facts; someone has to look at the logic and work out how something has happened.

I think your 'fact' has a few holes in it's application.