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Originally Posted by CometGuy
Here are the Northern Territory road death toll statistics, filtered on 130+unlimited speed limit (i.e the road/s in question) for the past years. Note how deaths have dropped markedly since the open speed limit was removed.
Basic Physics tells us:
- Impact Energy increases as a square of speed.
- Braking effort to stop also increases as near the square of speed.
- Reaction times become proportionally more critical as speed increases.
T.
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
This needs addressing...and some pretty damming local statistics were in the Sydney Morning Herald recently.
"In the first two years of the 130km/h limit, the (Northern) territory's toll leapt alarmingly *above* the last of the open-slather years,
from 35 deaths in 2004,
55 in 2005 and 44 in 2006 to 57 in 2007
followed by a tragic jump last year to 75 fatalities – the worst for 21 years"
Is this also irrelevant?
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Interesting comparison...
