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Old 02-01-2007, 08:04 PM
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A speed limit too late

It appears that the NT government is finally to introduce speed limits:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...1/s1780024.htm

Not everyone is happy with this, but a weekend paper reported that a 110kmp trial speed limit on one road reduced serious accidents and fatalities by 40%.

This is long overdue, and if it had been done sooner, we would have this bloke still amongst us:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Shoemaker

He died in a head on on one of those NT speed unlimted roads, during a geological field trip to Australia.

It is very sad that we loose people to stupid road accidents.

The car he collided with was on the wrong side of the road, I was told.

Spped kills, and excessive speed kills excessively.
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