#motorists — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #motorists, aggregated by home.social.
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Rural road deaths increasing
"A new report has identified an increasing number of fatal crashes on rural and regional roads".
"An analysis by the Australian Road Safety Foundation (ARSF) found 906 people died on roads outside the capital cities in 2025, a 10.5 per cent increase on 2024. The ARSF understands this to be the highest number of regional fatalities since 2020."
"Deaths on rural, regional and remote roads made up nearly 70 per cent of the national road toll in 2025, despite only about 25 per cent of the population living in those locations." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/experts-call-for-driver-caution-as-regional-road-toll-grows/107116680
#car #crashes #MobilityDesign #roads #speed #motorists #trauma #RegionalDrivers #carnage #sprawl
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Rural road deaths increasing
"A new report has identified an increasing number of fatal crashes on rural and regional roads".
"An analysis by the Australian Road Safety Foundation (ARSF) found 906 people died on roads outside the capital cities in 2025, a 10.5 per cent increase on 2024. The ARSF understands this to be the highest number of regional fatalities since 2020."
"Deaths on rural, regional and remote roads made up nearly 70 per cent of the national road toll in 2025, despite only about 25 per cent of the population living in those locations." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/experts-call-for-driver-caution-as-regional-road-toll-grows/107116680
#car #crashes #MobilityDesign #roads #speed #motorists #trauma #RegionalDrivers #carnage #sprawl
Image: (Supplied: Police Media, via ABCNews) -
Rural road deaths increasing
"A new report has identified an increasing number of fatal crashes on rural and regional roads".
"An analysis by the Australian Road Safety Foundation (ARSF) found 906 people died on roads outside the capital cities in 2025, a 10.5 per cent increase on 2024. The ARSF understands this to be the highest number of regional fatalities since 2020."
"Deaths on rural, regional and remote roads made up nearly 70 per cent of the national road toll in 2025, despite only about 25 per cent of the population living in those locations." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/experts-call-for-driver-caution-as-regional-road-toll-grows/107116680
#car #crashes #MobilityDesign #roads #speed #motorists #trauma #RegionalDrivers #carnage #sprawl
Image: (Supplied: Police Media, via ABCNews) -
Rural road deaths increasing
"A new report has identified an increasing number of fatal crashes on rural and regional roads".
"An analysis by the Australian Road Safety Foundation (ARSF) found 906 people died on roads outside the capital cities in 2025, a 10.5 per cent increase on 2024. The ARSF understands this to be the highest number of regional fatalities since 2020."
"Deaths on rural, regional and remote roads made up nearly 70 per cent of the national road toll in 2025, despite only about 25 per cent of the population living in those locations." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/experts-call-for-driver-caution-as-regional-road-toll-grows/107116680
#car #crashes #MobilityDesign #roads #speed #motorists #trauma #RegionalDrivers #carnage #sprawl
Image: (Supplied: Police Media, via ABCNews) -
Rural road deaths increasing
"A new report has identified an increasing number of fatal crashes on rural and regional roads".
"An analysis by the Australian Road Safety Foundation (ARSF) found 906 people died on roads outside the capital cities in 2025, a 10.5 per cent increase on 2024. The ARSF understands this to be the highest number of regional fatalities since 2020."
"Deaths on rural, regional and remote roads made up nearly 70 per cent of the national road toll in 2025, despite only about 25 per cent of the population living in those locations." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-05/experts-call-for-driver-caution-as-regional-road-toll-grows/107116680
#car #crashes #MobilityDesign #roads #speed #motorists #trauma #RegionalDrivers #carnage #sprawl
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* Victorian prisoners to be sent out to repair roads under Labor’s pothole plan
"Inmates would take over ‘basic’ road maintenance duties, allowing skilled crews to focus on fixing 500,000 potholes." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/31/victorian-prisoners-to-be-sent-out-to-repair-roads-under-labors-pothole-plan* Sam Cooke - Chain Gang (lyrics) >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_WmvJRQdAc
#inequality #incarceration #work #labour #infrastructure #roads #motorists #cars #SUVs #trucks #convicts -
Wow - apparently *none* of the #Gardaí are #pursuit trained to same standards as officers in GB / NI (or other European countries).
How even can a country operate like that?
Folk will be constantly at the mercy of reckless drivers or outright criminals / sociopaths. I have also seen quite a few Irish tooters over the years pointing this out
Sorting this out won't be an easy task - #roads in GB were quite lawless until things got cleaned up starting around late 1990s,. #CarCulture is strong, stubborn and resilient, and older #motorists still resent limitations of their "freedom" and many vote for parties such as Reform / Restore out of spite..
https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2026-08-17/garda-told-not-to-pursue-wrong-way-driver-before-fatal-crash
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Anyone from #WeirdCarMastodon or the #motorists on here in general use this #Custodian website/app for storing #car related data?
It seems to be aimed at enthusiasts (and poshos who can afford supercars), I'm starting to put a few bits of info about the #GolfGTI on it but am wary it will become chargeable or enshittified in some way and there's no easy data export at the moment (although the devs have said they aren't planning to charge for it as its funded by selling the classic car insurance)
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#Bellingen #Motorists knocked down a new #Koala sign which was installed barely three weeks ago and was two meters away from the road.
#BellingenShire #Cars #Detour #Traffic #LawFree #PromisedLand #Wildlife #Vehicle #Collisions #Koalas #Koala #Conservation #Efforts #HabitatFragmentation #WildlifeCorridor #Biodiversity #Extinction makers
