Road Deaths
Very few vivid memories remain from the morning of April 1, 2005. I was 17.
The one that sticks the most was dad crying. Dad never cries. Farmers never cry.
It could have been 4am, it could have been 7am. I still don’t know. All I remember was it was dark and mum and dad were standing at my bedroom door in tears. Daryl was gone. My mate.
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Next Wednesday the National Road Safety Council will have its inaugural meeting in Parliament House. This initiative from Australia’s Transport Ministers is an attempt to get expert advice from around the nation to make practical suggestions aimed at reducing our road toll.
The meeting will have a sombre tone.
Sadly, the heart-wrenching grief caused by road deaths visited more families last year than the year before. The road toll in 2009 was up by almost 5 per cent to 1,509 deaths, albeit still the second lowest figure in almost 60 years and less than half the average recorded during the peak of the 1970’s (3798).
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Charles Kelly says:
Bloody pathetic James. YOU support a scheme which promotes the very real possibility of people being injured or killed by distracted drivers, and YOU are perfectly content with this - that is, of course, until it’s pointed out that the unwilling victim of YOUR ignorance could potentially be YOUR own… Read more »
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James says:
What is invalid about accepting the consequences of your actions? If you do not like speeding fines, do not speed. That is my argument. If that is self-delusional masturbation, then so be it. In any case, I apologise for my insults. The fact that you seem to think it is… Read more »
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