Road Safety

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• The Road Safety Trust

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 627
  Rural Women New Zealand have alerted me to the strange cast of the Road Safety Trust – an organisation funded by a crown monopoly that declined every grant application it received this year. This quango is funded out of the sale of personalised plates. According to the 2007/08 annual report it made a $2.2 ...
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• NSW state-wide speed limit 90km/h?

  
  Car Advice | News Blog — Authority: 549
  NSW NRMA’s regional director Graham Blight recently told the media that the RTA’s hidden agenda is to drop the state-wide speed limit to 90km/h. Mr Blight’s allegations came as the RTA dropped the speed limit on the Newell Highway fell from 110km/h in places to 100 on December 1. Mr Blight suggests the RTA’s ...
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• Stolen Car Fatal Crash - How Funny?

  
  YG NEWS — Authority: 123
  Stolen Car Crashes in Bayswater - 16 year old Boy dies - Passenger Critically Injured - Innocent Woman in Hospital If you were to read the stories of Darwin Award winners, you are likely to burst into riotous laughter. In fact, some of the stories of those who lose their lives doing stupid things are so funny you ...
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• Australia cracks down on drunks

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 128
  Sydney – Australian police ended a two-day crackdown on drunken behaviour with more than 2 000 arrests or warnings issued by Sunday, saying they were disgusted by the level of alcohol-fuelled crime. Police said they hoped the operation would lead to a national debate about binge-drinking – a particular target of ...
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• Australia celebrates brutal road-safety PSAs

  
  AdFreak — Authority: 645
  No one does horrifying safe-driving PSAs quite like the Australians. And now, to celebrate 20 years of making people feel sad and sick in the name of the public good, Victorias Transport Accident Commission (with help from Grey Melbourne) has put together this greatest-hits music-video montage of nasty, depressing and ...
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• Plain Clothes Police: Just Plain Underhand

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 428
  I was out the other weekend filming how cars pass traffic islands - how much of the road they take up, what their position was, and how fast they were travelling.The strange thing was that while I was stood next to the road filming, all the driving seemed to absolutely exemplary. For some reason, everyone [...]
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• Lewis Hamilton’s road safety crap

  
  Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest — Authority: 442
  A NEW road safety scheme was launched by British Formula One star Lewis Hamilton in Weybridge on Sunday (December 6). Oh yeah? Surely the first person Lewis Hamilton should be talking to on this subject is his dad . The RoadSense initiative was developed by Mercedes-Benz and was piloted at Mercedes-Benz ...
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• More toll gates in South Africa likely, says minister

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 128
  There is not enough money available to fix roads, so more toll gates will probably have to be built on national roads, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said in a report on Thursday. More than 4 100km of roads – or 32 percent of the national road network – are in such a bad state that they only have a “structural ...
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• TAC 2009 Christmas Ad Everybody Hurts Video

  
  YG NEWS — Authority: 123
  Victorias Traffic Accident Commission - TAC Everybody Hurts TV Advertisement 20th Anniversary of first TAC graphic ad campaign. This is my second post about the TAC today. The first was to congratulate them on setting up a youtube channel which i had been advocating for a long time. Now this. I have to say that i ...
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• “I Didn’t Actually Hit You”

  
  Do The Right Thing Sweat365 Fitness Community — Authority: 428
  Gah! You could be forgiven if you’ve just read my earlier oh-the-Zen-of-cycling post that today was a perfect day to be out on two wheels. Indeed, in many ways it was . . . apart from the fact that the Mafia have obviously just increased the bounty on my head.In all I had three more-than-half-hearted [...]
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• Road Safety TAC Victoria Youtube Channel

  
  YG NEWS — Authority: 123
  Success! TAC Victoria Set Up a Youtube Channel Those of you who have read some of my posts previously will know how often i prattle on about road safety. Its something Im very passionate about. Which is why i was concerned that the TAC had seemed to drop the ball in getting their hard hitting messages out ...
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• Four killed in Moloto bus accident

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 128
  Four people died and 62 others were injured when a bus they were travelling in overturned on Moloto road in Kameelsdrift outside Pretoria, paramedics said. Four of the injured people were taken to hospital in a critical condition, 12 were seriously injured while 46 others were being treated for minor injuries, said ...
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• ‘The majority of cyclists do not ride through red lights’

  
  Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest — Authority: 442
  For those of you who like statistics, Transport for London has done some research into London cyclists and red light jumping. Among the wealth of research findings, these are the ones that stand out: ‘84 per cent obey’ ‘16 per cent disobey’ ‘men are more likely to ride through red lights than women to ...
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• How to be seen by motorists at night

  
  Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest — Authority: 442
  This excellent new road safety film emphasizes the importance of making yourself conspicuous to drivers at night – with 85 lights on your bike, 75 lights on your jacket, and lots more on your helmet. Happy Christmas!
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• Beep Beep!

  
  Baby Baby — Authority: 124
  Do you know what gets my goat? Bad driving, thats what. I get so disillusioned with the human race when Im driving. I try to drive carefully and follow the highway code and speed limits. I got caught speeding once. It was 1994 and I was driving down a steep hill. I was doing 43mph in a 30 limit. Hardly ...
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• Durban accidents injure 18

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 128
  Eighteen people were injured, three seriously, in three accidents involving taxis around Durban, paramedics said on Tuesday morning. Seven of the 18 people were injured on Tuesday morning when a minibus taxi they were travelling in hit a car and veered out of control before smashing into a tree on Durban’s Florida ...
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• Nez Rouge ready for party season

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 590
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The time has arrived for the annual Christmas party reminder: don’t drive if you plan to drink. The limit in Switzerland is 0.5 per 1,000, which means about one glass of wine. That said, Christmas parties, at the office or elsewhere, often catch people by surprise, and if you ...
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• Offal closes New Zeeland highway

  
  Road Safety & Arrive Alive Blog — Authority: 128
  Wellington – Police closed a New Zealand state highway on Tuesday after a truck left a 16-kilometre trail of stinking, bloody animal refuse up to 30 centimetres deep in places. Several cars crashed near Woodville, 190 kilometres north of Wellington, after spinning out of control on the fat-laden, spilled remains ...
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• South African public transport: A tragedy waiting to happen

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 119
  TWO accidents yesterday sent warning signals about the state of South Africa’s rail and air transportation ahead of the 2010 World Cup.The horrific head-on collision between two trains has cost a pregnant mother and a train manager their lives.It was an entirely avoidable collision that appears to have been the ...
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• Murder One - study finds homicide impacts more on road safety than drunk driving.

  
  velorution — Authority: 112
  From our guest blogger, Georgie Hobbs Bad drivers are blamed for road accidents. People are too old, too young, too drunk, too male, too female or simply too witless to drive without incident in the city. Or so we think. (Others might add archaic urban planning with narrow roads (in)complete with dodgy cycle lanes ...
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