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Old 29-07-2016, 11:01 AM
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EDIT. Just looked it up. National road toll in AUS for 2016 was 1269 for the 12 months previous to june 2016. The aus population for july 2016 is 24,141,909. Lets be conservative and say of those 24.1 million people, only 2/3 of them drive or passenger in a motor vehicle every day. And lets say that they do only 2 trips per day. (From home, then back to home.) This is very conservative. Im sure the averages are alot higher.

So thats 24,141,909 x 2/3 of people x 2 trips per day x 365 days a year. = 11,747,887,473.762. Now divide that by 1269. Now that = aprox 1 in 10million. So everytime you hopin a car, you have a 1 in 10mill. And thats very very conservative figures. Im sure more than 2/3 of the population would use the road. And im sure more than twice per day. I for example use a car about 15-20 times per day through work.

Now look at the homicide figures for aus. Could only find 2011to 2012 and that was 243. So 2.41 million divided is equal to less than 100 000. So that means you have a 1 in 100 000 chance of being murdered just by living in australia. But you have a 1 in 100 000 000 chance of dieing everytime you use a motor vehicle.

Now im not even gonna do the figures for other violent crimes. Or robbery/ break and enter. Or drug related crimes. But im sure we can estimate its alot alot more probable than dieing in a car.

So why is there such a huge emphasis on road law enforcement. Its retarded...
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