Conga line of knee jerks

Agree with Josh, NSW’s L/Red P/Green P limits of 80/90/100 creates chaos on the highways;
or they just drive with the traffic and get used to ignoring a road rule.
Plus, how do you learn to merge if your not allowed to match the traffic? That’s about the only point I agree with that Michael F. Lane idiot.

You know that column in the Canberra Times where they show you the news from ten years ago, and fifty years ago? A short while ago it was an article from 1996 talking about how we need tougher sanctions for P-platers before we all die. Same shit, different millennium.

What a burke….she’s embarrassing!!! The Libs certainly no how to pick them LOL

Heh. Last year they wanted cyclists off the roads. Now the P platers. Pretty soon they’ll just come out and say it – “we want EVERYONE off the roads except NRMA Directors”!

If the NRMA get their way, there will be less deaths among P-platers. Only because there will be a lot less P-platers to crash.

No P-platers = no P-plater accidents = most impractical idea ever.

If we get rid of the NRMA then we don’t have to see all these statistics, and there is no problem!

Does anyone have the breakdown of the ACT Fatal Accidents last year? If I remember, there were a couple of motorcyclists and a couple of pedestrians included in the ten deaths. The two blokes from the Weston Club were drunk and driving at huge speed, but they were not P-Platers and sadly for their families, should have known better.

Other than taking junkie pieces of shit off the roads such as Amber Jane, where there any other fatals caused by or involving drivers under 21?

i noticed that the p-plater accidents that happened late last year which sent the media into a frenzy all (that i’m aware of) involved a teenage boy driving.

so, perhaps we should just ban teenage boys…?

like your thinking poptop, why single out the p-plate drivers hey? plenty of people from other age groups die, let’s stop them from driving at night too.

The stats are pretty conclusive that men (of all ages) are more likely (2.5 times overall more likely) to be involved in fatal road accidents.

Should we take some measures to protect them from themselves too?

P-Platers will always have more accidents than other demographics because they are less experienced and less mature. We all know what ourselves and people we knew as teenagers got up to behind the wheel.

There will always need to be a balance between driver education, driving rules/law, enforcement and compliance, etc.

Looking at any of these in isolation is unlikely to achieve the desired result. Also, having rules that many in the community consider unreasonable doesn’t help.