I was watching the news last night and realised the above statement is true….
And I can prove it.

It will take a few paragraphs…. but, I guarantee it will be worth it!

The current ‘road toll’…..

‘Road Toll’ – a very nice term to describe people who have died unexpectedly in car accidents, usually by getting their delicate human body smashed and torn apart by sharp metal, bitumen and glass…..

So, the road toll in South Australia for this year (2023) is 31, that is 31 people

died as I described above.

Last year (2022) at the same time it was 15.

I wrote the above a few weeks ago and just decided to publish it and trawled the internet for the current totals….

That was difficult as the SAPOL web site had two different results and every where else I searched compared death rate to date, with the total for last year……

I could have gone to the media (the ‘merchants of misery’) reports but decided I couldn’t trust them more than statisticians, politicians or pollsters predicting ‘the Voice’ referendum….

So I will let you be the judge of these ‘accurate statistics’ …..

So, we are dying in horrific circumstances, being crushed and ripped apart; even incinerated, at double the rate.

Our Police (our beloved SAPOL) is full of good people going out their each day risking their lives when we need them to serve and protect us from the fantasy of the road toll and how they are ‘helping’ to reduce it.

They are just going through the PR motions:

• More breath tests
• More drug tests
• Giving out more on the spot fines
  • Cameras and computers even giving us more on the spot fines
  • Traffic operations in country towns and ‘black spots’ to do more alcohol and drug testing and hand out more fines.

The fantasy is the glory of protecting us from the ‘fatal five’ killers on the road:

• Drink and Drug Driving
  • Speeding
• Distraction
• Seat Belts
• Dangerous Driving

…. And SAPOL on average hand out …… get ready for this as it doesn’t sound real but, it is recorded on the SAPOL web site at the link below….

https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/expiation-notice-system-data

Okay I did research…. not my thing….. and found the below statistics.

In the days between 6/7/2022 – 31/3/23, a total of 268 days, there were 425,407 expiation notices issued by person and machine.

That is about 1500 a day!!

That is at total of $119,198,366.00 of fines issued in that period.

I need to write that out in full so you know it isn’t a mistake:

“one hundred and nineteen million, one hundred and ninety eight thousand three hundred and sixty six dollars!!!!!”

(Wait for it…. that is $444,770.022 A DAY!!!)

How about that ‘ramping’ at the hospital emergency departments where all the road accident patients go screaming in the back of an ambulances with bits hanging off them, or bit missing and squirting blood…. and waiting for hours with ambos on double shifts and not break

After all, we just need more beds, more doctors, more nurses….. but, where do we get the money???

Plus,

$26,253,260.00 additional payments on top of those fines for the Victims of Crime Levy.
(I bet that makes you feel good as a victim of crime when you have been waiting years for compensation?)

But, the good news the statistics reveal that SAPOL’s vigorous protection of us from the “Fatal Five’ resulted in more deaths and more fines.

The simple truth is that the infringement notices are going up in line with the the road toll – remember that is the crushing and ripping apart of human bodies and the death of someones’ loved ones..

So, this wonderful strategy of protecting us has continued with enforcement, telling people they are selfish pricks (which by the way wins an award in advertising!?) and that 3 out of 5 people killed on country roads live in the country; I just wonder what the statistics are for the number of people who live in the city that are killed on the roads in the city?

Plus as a little side issue (I’m writing a series on this one called ‘Never Pay and On the Spot Fine Again’ – to be published in the next week or so – there will be a link – here – when it is done).

SAPOL continues to increase enforcement, disregarding your presumption of innocence by taking away your license, on the spot, and then taking your car (and charging you to store it)….

And…. having on their web site that you ‘have‘ to pay the fine….

Is this all sounding a little crazy, even insane.

SAPOl is not doing the same thing over and over again….. they are doing more of the same thing, and more, and more…..

That is because by definition SAPOL and their ‘traffic strategies’ are insane as old Albert points out below:

I will tell you how to NEVER pay an on the spot fine given by a Police Officer or a robot (although it is getting pretty hard to tell the difference) EVER again….. in my next blog….

…..or maybe the one after….

I got heaps of other stuff to bitch about, like, crime and mayhem in the CBD of Adelaide!!!!!

Have a nice day…….?