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      01-20-2009, 12:35 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Guran View Post
You might be onto something there Breville. Fatality rates in the UK are lower than in Australia by some margin, whether they're expressed in terms of per capita or per billion km. Even Germany has better safety stats than Australia, despite the unlimited speeds on autobahns! On the other hand, US fatality rates are appalling but that's believed to be mainly due to poor seatbelt usage.
Here we do have a bit more wild life to contend with Roo's Wombats etc that must have something to do with it.
More mobile phones per head of population than the others I think hence more dickheads talking while driving.
the Yanks dont have to where a helmet with a motor bike (but they have to with a push bike??) and yes re the seatbelts so the car companies in there wisdom have set the trgger point of the air bags to go off much lower and have sometimes gone off for no reason.
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