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Ted the Kiwi said..
348 in NSW - up 41 on the previous year - now thats worth looking at a bit more one would think. Pedestrian deaths jumped from 42 to 62 and deaths from P-plate crashes were up by 16 to 50. There was also a 33 per cent increase in fatalities on metropolitan roads. So all in all a pretty poor performance from NSW road users it would seem.
Egads! Pretty horrific numbers Ted, and a huge increase, that's scary.
Without going deliberately to look that up, i would never have known...but i could tell you where a shark was seen. That's a bit sad. Important to inform ocean users of hazards, but when it comes to media hype i think there's a far greater moral obligation for the media to raise road safety issues and awareness rather than scare the crap out of the the already scared.
The P-plate numbers are terrifying as a lot of those I'm guessing would have been young people? I bet texting and driving accounts for some of the issue there?