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Some parts of the UK have higher figures than some parts of Australia, so depending on which parts of each country are being compared may give very different results or opinions.

The UK in 2006 was 50% worse than the ACT, and about the same as Victoria.
but... the Northern Territory was 4 times as bad as the UK.

Queensland was 8% worse than the UK.

These would be interesting:

• London compared to my area ?
• or Sydney compared to say the New Forest area ?

http://www.britzinoz.com/uk-australi...parison-uk-aus

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but i wonder how many vehicles are on the road comparing the two ?!

Surely London has about the same daily average as the whole of Australia ... :D

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Number of Vehicles per each 1,000 of population
685 Australia
561 Great Britain

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That brings up an interesting point.

Australia has 27% more Deaths per population
Australia has 22% more Cars per population
But if we could remove the NT from the equaition, it would be interesting.

I recall a discussion on this topic where we compared deaths per km travelled, but no one liked that format as it gave a different result ;)

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Yeah but you HAVE to have a car here so per 1,000 I woulda thought the Aussies woulda been heaps more than GB not just 100 or so.

Take population of both and there's heaps more cars on the road in the UK at any one time tho compared.

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haha - that's one of those cars that gets pulled behind the big RV type things though isn't it? Seen a few of these and thought wtf, and then when you pull alongside there is a bit of chain about a metre long between the 2?:eek:

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That's the one ... :D

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Comparing the two extreme figures of ACT and NT of :

• 4.1 Australian Capital Territory
• 27.0 Northern Territory

against a couple of the the UK 'near' extremes:

• 2.31 West Midlands
• 12.37 Northumbria

This does indicate how peoples opinions may vary.

Moving from Northumbria to Canberra would be a very different view to someone moving from West Midlands to the Northern Territory ;)

One thing that those comparisons do show, is that the higher death rates seem to be in more open areas in both counties. Cleveland, Northumbria and Cambridgeshire, being the highest in the UK. And London, Birmingham and Manchester being the lowest.

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Just did just that this morning, at 7am.

Was on the way to the Sunday market, a red-plater, young lady, munching her breakfast and most of the time one hand on the steering wheel, tailgated me for nearly 10 minutes. At the start, I just stayed at speed limit, (40, then 80, then 70) slowed right down when she got too close. She wouldn't take the hint. Then when I got to New Cleveland Road in Gumdale, where there were no other cars but our two, I put my left foot on the brake gentle. She got quite a shock as I pulled away.

There is no way to generalize who is more likely to tailgate. I've seen old ladies/men in a car as old as the driver, mothers with toddlers in the back of their 4WD, ute drivers, motorcyclists, truck drivers (on the Gateway usually), etc, doing the same stupid thing. Some people just seem to value time more than their own lives or lives of their family and others. :frown:

Mrs JTL

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I wonder if there's someone else taking a photo of the person using a camera while driving? :sneaky: :lol:

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JTL: >>There is no way to generalize who is more likely to tailgate. I've seen old ladies/men in a car as old as the driver, mothers with toddlers in the back of their 4WD, ute drivers, motorcyclists, truck drivers (on the Gateway usually), etc, doing the same stupid thing. Some people just seem to value time more than their own lives or lives of their family and others. http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/frown.gif<<

*I* can generalise: Australians :blink:

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Interesting read....so any one knows how are driving standards compared to the USA? Anyone drove in the US and Oz both?

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Actually I've seen a number of cars with no lights on in the dark! One truck had no lights at the back and he was driving on Ipswich motorway!
As for the police, my colleague had her car written off a couple of weeks ago because this young lad went through a red light cos he was trying to find his water bottle and smashed straight into her drivers side! The police attending the scene didn't take a report and when my colleague contacted the police station to ask about making a report they told her that if she did make one then the lad would be prosecuted! Amazingly she didn't want to prosecute so no report was made!!!!:confused: Unbelievable!
We've reported a dangerous driver too who scraped my husbands car and the police weren't interested in that either! So it makes you wonder how many accidents actually do occur here but are not reported!

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One of the problems here I think is because they don't like letting people in and if you do leave a space some a##ole cuts in!