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Inattention a bigger problem than speed
AAMI survey explodes popular speed mythInsurance company AAMI has just released the results of a road crash study which reveals, despite what your revenue-hungry local government would like to tell you, that speed is not necessarily the road safety ogre they would have you believe.
In fact, good old fashioned inattention is a factor inn 44 per cent of crashes, with speed a factor in 17 per cent.
While there is no doubt speed can greatly alter the severity of the outcome, these results beg some questions regarding the road safety campaigns mounted by states such as Victoria, which is awash with automatic speed cameras with just a 3km/h tolerance level.
The AAMI study drew data from a survey of 2500 people, plus its own crash and claims data from 2007.
Here are its key findings:
- In their lifetime, most Australians have experienced a crash (81 per cent) while driving or occupying a vehicle as a passenger.
- Crashes are more than twice as likely to be caused by driver inattention (44 per cent) than any other factor. Other factors include speeding (17 per cent), fatigue (11 per cent), and alcohol (nine per cent).
- Australia is still a nation of speeders, with eight per cent of drivers saying they speed 'most of the time'.
- One-quarter of drivers have been issued with a speeding fine in the past two years.
- One-third of drivers (34 per cent) admit to driving when they have knowingly breached the .05 legal blood alcohol limit.
- 15 per cent of drivers have taken a different route home to avoid being breathalysed.
- Of those drivers that have had their licence cancelled or suspended, 44 per cent attribute this to speeding and 40 per cent to drink-driving.
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Written byGuy Allen
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