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........borked him in the jewels and then .......

...........attempt to emasculate Onesy, but screamed as Onesy bit off half his ear. He stabbed upwards, the sure-fire SAS way to destpatch an enemy, but Onesey had grabbed a manhole cover and broke his knife and then his teeth. In desperation Errol ..........

You can't stop before the red light is on or fail to take of the millisecond the lights turn green, if Gen Zedders are around.

sand and it was hot sand. He had been hired by Onesy who was impressed by the Hugi dancing when speeches were made, so when he went a mining site to sell his Cat injectors and Ingersol Rand tap valves, Errol would be dancing away as he made his introductory speech to the Company Buyer. That was until one of them said "I knew you were an Organ Grinder Onesey, but who's the monkey" Errol had been an SAS Sergeant and now he ......................

It's a rule introduced in Victoria about 5 years ago; it means that you can't cross it. You can cross a solid white line to park if it's safe, but the other side of the yellow line is a no go zone. People complain about CASA regulations but at least we only have one set. Each State or Territory sets its own road rules. They have signage conventions and regulatory conventions to make them as consistent as possible nationally, but remember we are not a nation but a commonwealth of states. It's not that smart to test someone on all road rules for a licence in 1972 and expect him to remember them all plus all new ones in 2044. An online test, say every five years, would be a revision of the ones you've forgotten, plus pick up all those new regulations where the cop says, "Well I'm sorry sir, but the law was gazetted 2 years ago and you're supposed to know." It would also be the goto for people on international licences. However, while there may be bingles when people fail to give way, what we've been talking about is losing your life - fatalities, and when you start to disect those, you don't necessarily find significant numbers of fatalities from forgotten rules. A good measure of your own behaviour on the roads is to count the number of horn blasts you get; it should be about 1 every three years at the most.

OK Skippy, you're driving along the road and see an unbroken yellow line along the left e3dge of the road; what does that mean?

in the second clip which featured an Armenian Hugi dancer, the popular Vladovisa Vlodominich, providing a floor show while Markey spoke, he recognised something of himself and had squeezed into the Opal and headed for Perth. No one had seen Errol since and it was feared that he ..................

...on't Vaccinate. The astute NES audience might now be wondering what this odd community, who built a fence thousands of kilometers long and called it the "Rabbit proof fence" after it had trapped 68 million bunnies in WA was up to now. It was during the Markey Covid Blockade that the medical academics of the western state concluded that Ivermectin, a drug administered to cattle for treatment of Scabies, worms, head lice, and to mites in cage birds, could be used to treat WA residents badly needing treatment for the above and may well, after further research, kill Covid. Markey didn't hesitate and a few weeks later Ivermectin had been pumped into every water supply reservoir in WA. This would also save WA millions in not having to roll out Covid vaccines to the people. To prevent any Eastern-States thinking, he had his PR people roll out an anti-vaccine programme, and soon everyone was wearing the WADV badges which had a cow's head and the slogan "Good for Cattle;Good for Me!. Errol, one of the foundation Members of AUF was one of these. He flies a Facet Opal, and swears by it, but lately his erratic landings had started to worry his Club. At the same time the academics realised that Cattle are usually slaughtered and eaten before any long term Ivermectin side effects are noticed, but now all over WA, people like Errol.............................

I think that appeared on prune about five years ago.

.........VW drivers are Wankers. The group's designated sign writer didn't know how to spell W. When asked so spell it he wrote "Dubble-Yew". He was from W.A, but there was no one else who could write, so the group just had to .........

Almost all of that fits into the "Behaviour" category which indeed is a significant fatality sector on our streets, roads and highways. It's almost a zero fatality cause in racing because it's observed in multiple places on a circuit/oval by stewards all the time the person is driving. There are penalties, such as suspensions fore 6 months, 12 months, 2 years etc and life. Natural justice is provided by appeals tribunals and that has worked for 40 years or so, but our State governments have progressively reduced observation by Police in favour of automated (cost positive) equipment for measurable behaviour like speed, seat belt and mobile device traps. New drivers have to achieve around 120 hours under supervision and regardless of the popular beliefs that tey are taught the bad habits of the parents etc, they have the best knowledge of road rules in the user groups and the best habits and, like flying fewer fatalities. The next group, under 20s is the reverse, learning about hooning, drug taking and alcohil etc. "drive to right" Initially freeways and multi-lane roads allowed passing on both sides. This allowed freedom of choice for both slow and fast vehicles where slots opened up. Trips times reduced and accidents reduced substantially. There was an official figure for reduction of fatalities on freeways. Even though we, as humans could successfully pass safely on the left or the right, righteousness from the "safety industry" set in and in some states on some roads new rules were introduced prohibiting driving in empty right lanes where there was a (crowded) left one available. The nett effect is no real news on fatalities, so probably no reduction on the already small number, but a drop in travelling efficiency. This has been compounded by, in some States on some multi-lane roads and freeways, a total ban on trucks in the right lane because they slow the traffic (In reality virtually every semi and multi-combination is road-speed-governed to 103 km/hr and the freeway is flat.) This has reached its peak on the high volume Geelong Freeway from Melbourne with the right lane usually free and trucks weaving in and out of the two left lanes around the slow drivers. I've had to drive it a lot lately, and the average trip speed has dropped from 100 km/hr (or 103 if you're low on points) to a consistent 93 km/hr average, so productivity between the two cities has dropped for no real return in lives saved. "Truck drivers many km to pass" Heavy trucks and semi trailers are road speed governed by law to 100 km/hr. The road speed governor operates from the drive train, so the driver can rev the engine all he likes and it's not going any faster. In reality most of our inventive drivers increase the tolerance to a true 103. If you're driving at 100, you're going to see this many times on a long interstate trip. A good tip is, if a truck appears in the distance in your mirrors and five minutes later is closer, and five minutes after that is closer again he's going faster than you are, but he's locked by the road speed governor from accelerating around him. If you slow down to say 80 as soon as a long straight becomes available, he can judge the opportunity and pass in a very short time. The effect on your long distance trip time will be about zero. Have an experiment next time you're on a long trip; drop the speed 5 km/hr all the way to the next stop about 4 hours away and check the trip time; usually only about 4 minutes difference. It's stopping completely that wrecks the trip times. Behaviour is a huge subject, which if addressed could reduce the road toll significantly. At present is is largely just "observed". I agree with you road design is a very important segment and is responsible for a significant slice of the relatively small road toll. Most road improvements come after a fatality, but there's an increasing trend of academic "retaliation" against bad drivers by governments. For example in one case a driver was pulled over and fined for speeding on a country road by a cop. This enraged him so much that when he continued he didn't realise the road was joining a major highway or that there was a stationary car facing the stop sign in front of him. He slammed into the car knocking it out onto the highway where it was hit by a truck and its occupants killed. Government response? The highway now has an 80 km/hr limit in that area; the T intersection still exists for another day.

The speed thing dates from the days of horses when galloping at night or when drunk produced casualties. What you are getting at is behavioural which can be observed but is hard to set a line or or prove, so police pushed for things that could be proven such as a measured speed, and that morphed into automatic cameras which did the job of police and the plot was lost. You're not given an upper speed limit in racing, but cars with significantly different performances have been separated into classes over the decades, so the competitors are travelling at roughly the same speed. The advantage in that is better control of reflex action, less nose to tail accidents etc. I can see automtatic governing dictated by control devices for each separate speed zone with a central control to change governed speeds when it rains, dark etc. None of that is likely to save lives as you say.

Your loss, it's close to zero, so just colourful imagination.

.........great brute strode out. Turbo recognised CT by the faint bunny odour, and had never seen him so angry. Turbo thought CT was going to destroy the Corvette and yelled "Not the Corvette!", "Not the Corvette!" but Ct swept past him, grabbed half a dozen POTYCS and hurled them towards .........

What I recommended is that you google our extensive statistics which provide the answers to the speculated fatals from wire barriers.

In that case I'd recommend you research our accident statistical data on Motor Vehicle accidents. Vehicle advances have been discussed here, and a little on driver behaviour but an important part of the fatality equation is environment. In racing compressed solid objects such as protruding posts in safety fences which crushed a few heads, infield solid objects - like spectator cars, compressed solid objects, like light poles, etc have mostly been removed and replaced by things like runoff areas and sand traps where a bike rider can slide until his energy is dissipated. On our roads, light poles and sign posts now usually have frangible mounting so a car can hit at full speed without a fatality, but it's not so easy to get rid of the compressed solid objects - trees. Australians love trees along their roads even though just about every country town has a couple of crosses along the way. Wire barriers are not like armco, but a more gentle way of slowing a vehicle down before it impacts a solid tree. The result of thousands of kilometres of barriers has been lower fatalities on these problem roads.

That was what some people predicted at the beginning but they probably didn't know it was a slack-wire system.

Australia's motor vehicle fatality numbers per year are small, down below medical negligence. Driving standards are not ignored, the conversation on this thread has just rumbled along relating to safety after the accident. Driving behaviour has several subjects which can vary the fatality rate, and there are many other factors as well. I know the TYPES of motor vehicles take up the whole of the full width of the Vicroads Auditorium because I was there the day the engineer from Adelaide started at the left wall and walked across the room writing all trhe way. We realised we didn't know as much as we thought we did. We currently have what might become a permanent J Curve caused by drugs and inattention, but at the other end less fatals thanks to wire barriers which take a lot of point loadings out of the equation. The wire barriers are deflecting B Doubless back on the road and at the same time acting like arrestor cables on aircraft carriers for motor cyclists. There were some wire barrier fatalities earlier due to incorrect installation.

.....tory about the Khyber Pass, just for study purposes. Cappy seized ..........................

From memory I think it was a London Transport Study within the last 10 years. If you can't find it easily, let me know.

....winner in every category. Gone were the days when his world was shaped by old Mavis at the Bone RSL. Now as a suave Trawler Captain with his black eye patch and fur lined boots (it was said he would get into anything if it was fur lined), not to mention recognised as Australia's best Drifter pilot (hadn't torn a skin in six flights), bull had his own goup of groupies to pick from on the pier when he arrived in Port, and everyone thought it would be much the same this time, but waiting on the pier for him was .............. Turbo can add that he and Ratty were as straight as Bass.

If you work in an industry that's the sort of question that has to be asked so you can quantify what exactly will make a difference. In country towns where everyone knows everyone else's business, there is always someone who drives home drunk, leaves his gun loaded on the parcel shelf, uses his chainsaw to remodel his rafters, has three tractors without rops and rides his 4 wheeler around the paddocks full of stumps in the long grass, flies an old Auster which he beats up the neigbours with, and everyone just nods when he finally becomes a statistic. About the best comparator for what you described is fatalities per x No of missions or x No of days they went out. You can then break it up into when they went out x. Where x = with alcohol in the blood, or drugs, or distractions, or agressive (all in the behaviour group) and so on. As far as the super-slow school zones, shopping zones and now entry to town zones are concerned, a very detailed London traffic study (I think 30 mph) showed 1 person died falling on a car when it was stationary, the peak of deaths at 2/3 of the speed limit (so about 20) and no deaths over the speed limit.

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........military exercise called "south pacific") "This time" bull said "I want to see some action!" The original "south pacific" had been a disaster; his Uncle, Will Rogers had been retained by the US army to write a cover up story, said there were things that happened there you wouldn't even see at the Henty B&S ball. "Firstly" he said in Arabic "we aren't going to walk ashore right under the guns of the enemy!" We're going to organise a Fancy Dress Ball and simply come along, enjoy the fun and towards the end of the night reluctantly walk inland towards the hills where drifters, supplied by auf volunteers will be waiting for the dawn attack when .......................................

.......you'll have to do it again. bull, bleeding from orifices, bruised to the level that he'd be graded as a rare steak, scratched beyond belief by the Tasmanian tigers thought about the humanity of it and .............................