Country Speeding Campaign

[JaminVYII]

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/advertisingcampaigns/countryspeeding.html

Keep an eye out for the TV ad. Interesting and to the point. At first I thought it was an ad for some new version of the Falcon Ute.... How wrong i was.

[Bumfluff]

Why is it that whenever they give percentages of road accidents that the 'quality of the road' is never mentioned? :bash:

[Rod]

Why is it that whenever they give percentages of road accidents that the 'quality of the road' is never mentioned? :bash:

because if the road quality was ever officially the cause of an accident it would open the door for the government being liable for something they are responsible for...can't have that now can we :rolleyes:

[Davidm]

That adds a load of rubish! The guy in the ute survives being t-boned whilst the people in the toyota who hit him directly head on are obviously in a lot of pain or dead. It should be the opposite way around, as the body is much more susceptable to injury when travelling sideways, i.e. being t-boned at speed. Like modern cars the body naturally can take a fairly high decelleration rate when moving directly forward, not to mention airbags in the toyota and the forward crumple zone and seat belts. The ute driver would had little aid from such technologies being t-boned.

I get the point of the add, but once again the rta have just demonstrated that they have no idea on reality! The guy in the ute should have been killed in that accident, let alone being able to walk and then kick the ute in disgust. :bash:

[Rt!]

the ad is ok, it immitates the falcadore ads.. but the thing is, I fail to see how speed caused the accident, its more lack of attention.. and the fact that he went sideways overtaking was a bit wtf

[Devil CV8]

the ad is ok, it immitates the falcadore ads.. but the thing is, I fail to see how speed caused the accident, its more lack of attention.. and the fact that he went sideways overtaking was a bit wtf
If you go to the link in the first post it explains it...
Basically he was enjoying the roads and travelling at a high speed because he knew the road, he then came around a bend and there was a slow moving truck, he swerves to avoid the truck and loses control, and crashes.

[ls1ozstyle]

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/advertisingcampaigns/countryspeeding.html

Keep an eye out for the TV ad. Interesting and to the point. At first I thought it was an ad for some new version of the Falcon Ute.... How wrong i was.


Dam ad got me too.Have been enjoying all the Holden & Ford ads over past few years because most are performance orientated.At the start they suck you in to thinking it is a ford ute ad then BAMM.
I saw the ad at about 5:30pm which in my opinion is wrong as the little kiddies dont need to see that stuff.




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[Rt!]

If you go to the link in the first post it explains it...
Basically he was enjoying the roads and travelling at a high speed because he knew the road, he then came around a bend and there was a slow moving truck, he swerves to avoid the truck and loses control, and crashes.
he wasnt even coming around a bend, the road was relatively straight :P

[Ricko]

Yes lets use the revenue raised from speeding fines, to make very expensive adds so we can justify more speeding tickets and convince the clueless amongst us that speeding causes just about every accident on our roads.

Transport ministers constantly say the cost of upgrading our roads is prohibitively expensive, well how about you spend some of the money raised on our roads, on making them safer, but then if the raods were safer you could drive on them faster and safely, which kills revenue and we cant have that. :mad:

[ROK350]

I travel on country roads all the time and having a wonderful 4 km of NSW's finest single lane, pot hole marked blacktop that takes me to and from my home. I am well aware of "the sense of enjoying a well known road", however I am also well aware that the road rules still apply and to try and overtake a truck without ensuring that it is clear to do so is STUPIDITY. Nothing to do with Speed, the way I see it.