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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
No.
The truckie was driving like a drongo.
You could *park* a truck on the wrong side of the road with similar disastrous consequences.
Plus you seem to be in denial about German autobahn statistics...every bugger there is going quite fast, yet there is *an order of magnitude* difference *less* in the accident rate.
Hence my position, it's not how fast you drive, it's how you drive.
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Sorry Peter, I'm going to jump on the band wagon.
Your points are not only irrelevant, they are non-sensical.
You are clearly binding your whole POV on
German autobahn statistics. These statistics are irrelevant in an ultimate conclusion on the subject. You are correct, speed does not kill on an Autobahn. That however has nothing to do, with concluding that "speed" does not kill.
How does taking the example of high grade / quality roads, designed for high speed, with unique equipped preformance vehicle usage, equate itself in respect to our Australian situation? It does not and I really can not see for the life of me, where you are coming from.
We have low quality roads, intersections, people not use to such speeds, dodgy clapped out old cars which can barely make the current speed limits and pedestrian traffic. If you add speed, you do indeed dull reaction times. Any debating of that is just obsurd.
In a theoretical world or your Autobahn example, no speed does not kill.
I would like to hear though however, how you would relate that to the comment "Speed does not kill" in general. With or without "drongos" on the road, people make mistakes, hell even I make mistakes. Speed increases the likelihood of a crash, not only that, it exponentially increases damage. Reminds me of the old fall back that "Guns don't kill people, people kill people". If the gun / speed was never there, then there is a whole lot less chance of someone being killed in the first place.
Your comment about a pedestrian and a mack is just cannon fodder, it has no relevance either.