Dennis@home wrote
Tim Lamb wrote

Did '79 coincide with a speed limit change or do drivers need time to
learn a new route? Traffic flow has hugely increased so it may be clear
roads that cause accidents:-)

Clear roads do cause accidents,

Must explain why freeways have MUCH lower
accident rates than the roads they replace.

the speed goes up

Yes.

until it exceeds the drivers ability.

Nope. Particularly with fully divided freeways/motorways,
those require MUCH less of the drivers so that doesn’t in
fact happen enough to matter.

Some drivers learn their limits before they have a major crash,

And those that don’t see freeways MUCH more forgiving
given that everyone is going in the same direction etc.

some just aren't capable of learning.

Those don’t get license to drive.

There was an idiot around here that borrowed his parents car and wiped
himself out by crashing into a gatso in the central reservation.

There will always be fools like that. The whole point of modern clear
road design is that they are MUCH more forgiving of that sort of
terminal stupidity.

The parents blamed the camera!

Clearly the problem is in the genes.

I suppose that if the camera wasn't there he could have crossed the
central reservation and not killed someone coming the other way

The better designed systems ensure that the central reservation can not be
crossed.

but I don't see how a camera can be blamed.

Its a 40 limit so there should be no trouble negotiating the bend.

Depends on how ****ed/drugged he was at the time.