Gatso: more fines, more deaths shocker

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4482215.stm

N Wales: 70% rise in tickets issued, 200 a day, £3.4M

Deaths: 59 in 2004, 49 in 2003

Comedy comments from Arrive Alive

"People are killing themselves on roads we're not targeting,"

"Nobody makes any money out of this,"

 

wessie wrote

Is North Wales a particularly hazardous place to ride or is this one of
those figures skewed by Mid Life Crisis things? I mean, if you took the
Darwin Nominees out of the equation would their graph more or less be
the same as round here?

 

They'll run out of roads/road users eventually.

 

There's probably some truth in that.
Where everyone used to enjoy decent A roads they are now still going for
rides round wales but are moving to crappier minor roads as they know there
are no cameras. Trouble is these roads have worse surfaces , big brick walls
at the edge , and random tractors and sheep shit.

--
Alex

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The realm of the big trailie - soon to be spoiled by the sounds of it
:-(

 

Last year, 59 people were killed in North Wales, compared to 49 in
2003. However, on those roads with speed cameras, the number of
fatalities remained at 12 in each year.

<jump a paragraph>

With reference to safety cameras we've identified roads that are high
risk so we're seeing a decrease.

Eh? Looks fairly static to me.

--
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In other news, over 5000 people will die from infections they contract
in hospitals this year - far more than will die on the roads. But
"speed kills", so that's ok then.

 

Is it cheaper to deal with a fatality in a hospital than an RTA?

Maybe they should start fining people for having a disease with too many
symptoms.

"Now sir, do you know how many times you were blowing your nose?"

 

I would think so. The body's already in the right place, & no pesky
investigations are required, not to mention insurance costs, cleaning
blood off the road etc.

Don't give them ideas ffs.

 

"The latest figures suggest on average around 200 drivers were caught
breaking the speed limit every day last month."

Really, though, if this many people are breaking the law, *surely*
someone must begin to look at whether the law needs changing.

Oh, silly me.

--
John (jsp)

SV 650
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And Naked

 

Are suggesting there's a preponderence of bikers killing themselves in
that figure?

Typical prejudiced view.

--
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And Naked

 

Krusty said...

Wanna bet?

RTA death is classified as sudden death and as such falls under the
remit of the coroner. This will usually require that a postmortem is
performed.

 

Err... you might want to try reading that again. I was referring to the
hospital infection fatalities, not RTAs. And yes, I know they'll be
investigated too, but probably at less cost than an RTA investigation.

 

Krusty said...

Oh right, so you were. My mistake.

But yes, fatalities from hospital acquired infections are also
investigated - I wasn't questioning the cost, just the "no pesky
investigations bit". The investigations are a serious pain in the arse,
probably cheaper than an RTA investigation, I agree.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

"The motorcyclist was injured in a single-vehicle RTA. He was taken to
hospital, and subsequently acquired an infection from the A&E unit. He
was then transferred to a specialist infection unit by ambulance which
was involved in an accident. At this point he had become completely
uneconomic, so we let him die."

--
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and Ducati Race Engineer.

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Not really.
Based on numbers of miles ridden bikers *are* more likely to hurl themselves
into the scenery and die.

--
Alex

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