This occured not that long ago in Melbourne:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/road-safety-blitz-in-melbournes-cbd-20090511-azo8.html
Read this and weep! You’ll see stats given like:
Senior Sergeant Shane Pettingill, from Melbourne’s traffic management unit, said the CBD had the highest number of pedestrian and cyclist collisions in the state – 358 over the past year – with injuries rising at an alarming rate.
Two pedestrians have died and 66 were seriously injured in the past 12 months.
No mention is made of the safety of having the recent explosion of bars, clubs and other liquour outlets, combined with the associated increase in violence.
Other sources reveal that each pedestrian injury can cost the state up to $500,000.00
Thats a massive subsidy to the ‘entertainment industry’…
Not one pedestrian during this ‘blitz’ would have been breath tested, found to be incapable of safely continuing their journey, and perhaps preventing them from falling under a train or tram, engaging in alcohol fuelled violence or worst of all, getting into a car and driving off undetected…
Reason: not against the law to be over .08 and be a pedestrian.
