Bleak start to 2013 on roads

Seven people including an eight-year-old girl have died in traffic accidents in what has been a bleak start to the new year on Australian roads.

The New Year's Day fatalities began in NSW, after a head-on crash on the Pacific Highway on the north coast.

Two cars collided at Bangalow, near Possum Creek Road, at about 2.20am (AEDT) and its drivers, a man and a woman, were killed.

There were no passengers in either car, but the holiday road toll has climbed to 11.

In Western Australia just after midnight a car left the road and hit a tree on the side of the Great Southern Highway east of Perth.

An eight-year-old girl, her two-year-old sister and their 30-year-old mother had to be cut from the vehicle and flown to Perth for treatment.

The eight-year-old died in hospital while her mother is being treated for serious injuries.
The two-year-old sustained minor injuries.

Several hours later a man was killed in a hit-and-run incident as he walked along a suburban street south of Perth.

The man, who is yet to be identified, was struck by a vehicle at about 4.30am (WST) as he walked along Ennis Avenue in Waikiki.

Investigators are calling for witnesses.

In Queensland, two men aged 28 and 19 were killed when the car they were in crashed into the front yard of a house west of Brisbane.

The vehicle ploughed through a fence before coming to rest on its side in the front yard of the house in Glebe Street in the Ipswich suburb of Silkstone at about 4.45am (AEST).

An 18-year-old man who was also in the car and who was taken to hospital with head injuries is in a stable condition.

Earlier, a 41-year-old woman who was asleep on the road was struck and killed by an L-plate motorcycle rider in the Northern Territory.

Police believe the woman was lying on Sturt Terrace in East Side at Alice Springs at about 2.30am (CST) when she was hit.

The 21-year-old L-plater allegedly returned a positive test for alcohol and police say he could face charges.
The deaths on New Year's Day took the national holiday road toll to 43.

* The national road toll period runs from 0001 December 23, 2012, until 2359 January 3, 2013, local times, in line with the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Board.

smh.com.au 1 Jan 2013

Speeding fines are one of the most profitable sources of income for the government.

The government uses this as an excuse for the alleged road blitzes, to target speeding motorists.

The truth lies hidden and is deliberately NOT exposed or any attention drawn to by the corporate media.

The government falsifies accident results stating that speed was the cause of the accident, rather than a driver error.

This fact has been mentioned on a New South Wales radio station, by a former police (whistle blower) officer.

In 2012 approximately 900 (approx 17 per week) children were locked in vehicles, where police assistance was needed.

Alleged statistics for smoking related deaths number in the magnitude of 19,000 per year, or approx. or 365 per week.

There is no outcry by police, about (for example) deaths caused by cancer due to smoking, but when it comes to picking up money from the masses, well that's a different story.