or does it? More likely ignorance and lack of common sense is...

or does it? More likely ignorance and lack of common sense is the killer - and not always associated with the driver.

Having to be constantly watching the speedo to avoid our crazy stringent speed laws (pure revenue collection actually) constantly takes attention away from watching the road and environs. Amazingly the dopes making and policing mobile fone laws seem to be unaware that constantly looking at the speedo is not that much different from constantly looking at a mobile fone screen (they both divert attention away from safe driving).

But of course we never hear cops or pollies admit this.

I think this report is at last hitting the facts................

http://www.motoring.com.au/is-over-emphasis-on-speeding-killing-us-104763/

"There is no silver bullet to reducing the road toll, but what is becoming increasingly apparent is that governments’ ever-increasing focus on low-level speeding has been successful only in one area — increased government revenue."