politicalowl

Not much fun for a 73 year old reading the Daily Telegraph this morning with a stern faced traffic policeman staring out with a warning to stop driving the car. Just when I have managed to rejoin the workforce, NSW Police head of traffic John Hartley wants to force me to stop. I'm 2½ times as likely to be killed in an accident apparently - a statistic that sent me searching the NSW Centre for Road Safety's database. Here's what I found: True it is that we over-70s are more likely to kill ourselves than the average of all drivers (See the column Driver deaths per 100,000 licence holders) but less so than than those 20 and under. When it comes to all road deaths - drivers, passengers, those in other vehicles, pedestrians and so on - (the last column) my lot do worse than the youngsters. Then again we do substantially better than all but the 40 to 69 age groups when you count all accidents with injuries (Casualties per 100,000 licence holders). These figures were f...