Australia's Road Toll - 7 people killed every 2 days in the last 12 months
Let that headline sink in. 1296 people died on Australia's roads between April 25, 2024 and April 25, 2025. Divide that by 365 and you get 3.5 (and a bit) people killed on Australia's roads every day. This is like tolerating manslaughter. For perspective, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) records that 409 people were murdered in 2023. Fewer than a third of the roads deaths figure. As far as I can tell, from daily media consumption, murder rightly draws public ire yet there's almost no outrage at the senseless deaths of people going about their daily business. This is fucked up! Murder certainly warrants public action, police work, active justice. Why do deaths, caused by weilding 2 tons of motor vehicle, weilded with compromised care or attention, draw media attention only for the spectacle of wreckage? In nearly all car crashes, there is a liable party and a victim. Where there isn't a victim, it's nearly always 2 or more liable parties. Where is the outrag...