#roadtoll — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #roadtoll, aggregated by home.social.
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Motorists killing road workers? Money over lives?
We'd rather not know"The way road trauma was classified contributed to that visibility problem."
"A traffic controller killed at a roadworks site does not appear in a public 'road worker' category."
"...While Queensland published weekly road toll figures, there was no one publicly accessible source that integrated public road fatalities, work-related road deaths, serious injury hospitalisations in one place or in near-real time. Road workers are especially vulnerable because they are exposed on high-speed corridors where a single reckless decision can have catastrophic consequences."
"Tragically, one afternoon Suzanne was struck by a truck travelling 106km/h in a 60km/h zone. The truck drove on the footpath and killed her." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/qld-road-death-roadworks-traffic-controller/106391030
#roads #RoadTrauma #RoadFatalities #SacrificeZone #cars #OHS #work #RoadToll #RoadSafety #accountability #NegativeExternalities #invisibility #speed #footpathsImage: Coffs Harbour, Pacific Highway conveyor belt 'upgrade', less bush but ready for a bright fossil fuel future without cycle paths and footpaths.
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Motorists killing road workers? Money over lives?
We'd rather not know"The way road trauma was classified contributed to that visibility problem."
"A traffic controller killed at a roadworks site does not appear in a public 'road worker' category."
"...While Queensland published weekly road toll figures, there was no one publicly accessible source that integrated public road fatalities, work-related road deaths, serious injury hospitalisations in one place or in near-real time. Road workers are especially vulnerable because they are exposed on high-speed corridors where a single reckless decision can have catastrophic consequences."
"Tragically, one afternoon Suzanne was struck by a truck travelling 106km/h in a 60km/h zone. The truck drove on the footpath and killed her." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/qld-road-death-roadworks-traffic-controller/106391030
#roads #RoadTrauma #RoadFatalities #SacrificeZone #cars #OHS #work #RoadToll #RoadSafety #accountability #NegativeExternalities #invisibility #speed #footpathsImage: Coffs Harbour, Pacific Highway conveyor belt 'upgrade', less bush but ready for a bright fossil fuel future without cycle paths and footpaths.
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Motorists killing road workers? Money over lives?
We'd rather not know"The way road trauma was classified contributed to that visibility problem."
"A traffic controller killed at a roadworks site does not appear in a public 'road worker' category."
"...While Queensland published weekly road toll figures, there was no one publicly accessible source that integrated public road fatalities, work-related road deaths, serious injury hospitalisations in one place or in near-real time. Road workers are especially vulnerable because they are exposed on high-speed corridors where a single reckless decision can have catastrophic consequences."
"Tragically, one afternoon Suzanne was struck by a truck travelling 106km/h in a 60km/h zone. The truck drove on the footpath and killed her." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/qld-road-death-roadworks-traffic-controller/106391030
#roads #RoadTrauma #RoadFatalities #SacrificeZone #cars #OHS #work #RoadToll #RoadSafety #accountability #NegativeExternalities #invisibility #speed #footpathsImage: Coffs Harbour, Pacific Highway conveyor belt 'upgrade', less bush but ready for a bright fossil fuel future without cycle paths and footpaths.
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Motorists killing road workers? Money over lives?
We'd rather not know"The way road trauma was classified contributed to that visibility problem."
"A traffic controller killed at a roadworks site does not appear in a public 'road worker' category."
"...While Queensland published weekly road toll figures, there was no one publicly accessible source that integrated public road fatalities, work-related road deaths, serious injury hospitalisations in one place or in near-real time. Road workers are especially vulnerable because they are exposed on high-speed corridors where a single reckless decision can have catastrophic consequences."
"Tragically, one afternoon Suzanne was struck by a truck travelling 106km/h in a 60km/h zone. The truck drove on the footpath and killed her." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/qld-road-death-roadworks-traffic-controller/106391030
#roads #RoadTrauma #RoadFatalities #SacrificeZone #cars #OHS #work #RoadToll #RoadSafety #accountability #NegativeExternalities #invisibility #speed #footpathsImage: Coffs Harbour, Pacific Highway conveyor belt 'upgrade', less bush but ready for a bright fossil fuel future without cycle paths and footpaths.
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Motorists killing road workers? Money over lives?
We'd rather not know"The way road trauma was classified contributed to that visibility problem."
"A traffic controller killed at a roadworks site does not appear in a public 'road worker' category."
"...While Queensland published weekly road toll figures, there was no one publicly accessible source that integrated public road fatalities, work-related road deaths, serious injury hospitalisations in one place or in near-real time. Road workers are especially vulnerable because they are exposed on high-speed corridors where a single reckless decision can have catastrophic consequences."
"Tragically, one afternoon Suzanne was struck by a truck travelling 106km/h in a 60km/h zone. The truck drove on the footpath and killed her." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/qld-road-death-roadworks-traffic-controller/106391030
#roads #RoadTrauma #RoadFatalities #SacrificeZone #cars #OHS #work #RoadToll #RoadSafety #accountability #NegativeExternalities #invisibility #speed #footpathsImage: Coffs Harbour, Pacific Highway conveyor belt 'upgrade', less bush but ready for a bright fossil fuel future without cycle paths and footpaths.
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@tml
Yes, totally agree. A rolling five year average makes more sense to report, smoothing out those statistical one-offs (flukes) & better enabling sight or understanding of real change over time. Still an impressive achievement as it’s often said (in public health circles) that it can’t be done).#publicHealth #roadToll #roadFatalities #roadTrafficAccidents #rollingAverage
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@tml
Yes, totally agree. A rolling five year average makes more sense to report, smoothing out those statistical one-offs (flukes) & better enabling sight or understanding of real change over time. Still an impressive achievement as it’s often said (in public health circles) that it can’t be done).#publicHealth #roadToll #roadFatalities #roadTrafficAccidents #rollingAverage
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@tml
Yes, totally agree. A rolling five year average makes more sense to report, smoothing out those statistical one-offs (flukes) & better enabling sight or understanding of real change over time. Still an impressive achievement as it’s often said (in public health circles) that it can’t be done).#publicHealth #roadToll #roadFatalities #roadTrafficAccidents #rollingAverage
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@tml
Yes, totally agree. A rolling five year average makes more sense to report, smoothing out those statistical one-offs (flukes) & better enabling sight or understanding of real change over time. Still an impressive achievement as it’s often said (in public health circles) that it can’t be done).#publicHealth #roadToll #roadFatalities #roadTrafficAccidents #rollingAverage
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@tml
Yes, totally agree. A rolling five year average makes more sense to report, smoothing out those statistical one-offs (flukes) & better enabling sight or understanding of real change over time. Still an impressive achievement as it’s often said (in public health circles) that it can’t be done).#publicHealth #roadToll #roadFatalities #roadTrafficAccidents #rollingAverage
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Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?
#ausnews #vicnews #suv #cars #transport #oversize #trucks #tanks #mva #roadtoll #parking #vision #accidents #fatalities -
Links to a fresh set of "road toll" scam websites were pushed out by SMS today, targeting people with mobile phones in #Colorado area codes. The messages tell the recipient that they owe back tolls for driving on a highway in Colorado and purports to link to the Colorado DMV website. The page that loads accurately mimics the Colorado Department of Revenue website appearance, and claims you owe $6.69 in tolls. Needless to say, this is fake. Spread the word: Tolls are not collected directly via SMS message.
This is a continuation of an ongoing, Russia-originated campaign that has been targeting specific states and regions for the past year. I blogged about it in October for @Netcraft - we gave the threat actor the moniker Logger EIO. https://www.netcraft.com/blog/taxpayers-drivers-targeted-in-refund-and-road-toll-smishing-scams
#smishing #phishing #colorado #CODOR #CODMV #DMV #scam #fraud #roadtoll #tollroad #tollscam #LoggerEIO
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Germany was not the only non-US country represented in the #LoggerEIO #smishing attack (so far).
There was one version of a page claiming to be the Spanish highway authority, Dirección General del Tráfico (DGT), that warns you owe a 100 Euro fine (multa) for some kind of driving infraction you committed, that must be paid within 24 hours.
More recently, I spotted a flood of pages that claim to be from the UK government's Winter Fuel Payment program. The real program helps impoverished people not freeze to death in winter by subsidizing the high cost of heating. But this page simply wants your credit card to "test" charge your card for £1 on the promise that you'll get up to £300.
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#smishing #phishing #roadtoll #HighwayRobbery #WinterFuelPayment #UK #spain #espana #Netcraft #NetcraftConfirmsIt #NetcraftResearch #Germany
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First of all, this seems to be part of a much wider #smishing campaign that people are more familiar with: Fake road toll collection #scams
These have been a nuisance all year, and some of the sites hosting the same #phishing kit appear to be using that same ruse, simultaneously with the new one.
Did you get a message telling you that you owe $6.99 (or $6.69 - nice) in tolls? Probably part of this larger network of scammers.
Note how they have expanded to a variety of different locales: the City of Los Angeles, Seattle, Columbus (Ohio), and even the Canadian province of Ontario are all reflected, as well as the E-ZPass and SunPass multi-state toll payment systems, which together cover most of the US states that operate toll roads.
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#phishing #fraud #roadtoll #tollscams #netcraft #NetcraftConfirmsIt #EZPass #SunPass
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Prioritising life over cars
VisionZero - Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
"Helsinki, like Oslo and Stockholm, have all but eliminated traffic fatalities. Lower road speeds, automated cameras, and clever city design all helped; but it’s the over-arching vision that made it all possible. More than half of Helsinki’s streets have a speed limit of 30 km/h (approximately 20 mph). Smarter street design also played a key role. Pedestrian and cycling infrastructure was prioritized for upgrades in recent years. More and more people started using public transit or bikes, or just walking."
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/helsinki-went-a-full-year-without-a-traffic-death-how-did-they-do-it/In 2024, Australia experienced its worst road toll in over a decade, with 1,300 fatalities.
https://datahub.roadsafety.gov.au/progress-reporting/monthly-road-deathsCan Australia cut road deaths to zero by 2050? Current trends say no. What’s going wrong?
https://theconversation.com/can-we-cut-road-deaths-to-zero-by-2050-current-trends-say-no-whats-going-wrong-220289
#VisionZero #MobilityDesign #cars #speed #RecklessDriving #motorists #CarDominance #TrafficDeaths #pedestrians #PublicTransport #cycling #RoadToll #SacrificeZone #roads #climate -
Don't click on those #roadtoll #texts. Officials issue warnings about the #smishing #scam
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-dont-click-road-toll-texts.html
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"Paint is not protection, here's why": Damage to cycle lane sparks calls for properly protected cycling routes
https://road.cc/content/news/damage-bike-lane-sparks-calls-protected-cycle-routes-312483Magic paint simply does not work. Some motorists require a physical barrier to stop them losing their minds, imagining they're a cyclist, steering their large and heavy motor-vehicle into the wrong lane, and injuring or killing cyclists.
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Australia’s road toll hits 12-year high as pedestrian and cyclist fatalities rise
'Upgrades to nowhere'"Government figures show 1,300 people died on the roads last year in a rate of increase not seen since the 1960s. Last year’s road toll was 18.5% higher than 2021, when a 10-year plan to halve road deaths was introduced. Pedestrian deaths rose from 156 in 2023 to 167 in 2024, a 7.1% increase, while cyclist deaths jumped from 34 in 2023 to 38 in 2024, an 11.8% increase."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/27/australia-road-toll-2024-1300-deaths-highest-in-more-than-a-decade
#cars #SUVs #roads #RoadToll #pedestrians #cycling #MobilityDesign #safety #failure #FossilFuels -
Road toll or systemic risk?
More than 11,000 people have been killed on Australian roads in the past 10 years. The number is expected to rise as the holiday season approaches.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/national-road-toll-nsw-qld-vic-biggest-increases/104641234The 'integral accident': "When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress." – Paul Virillio
https://gregswan.net/2018/11/30/french-cultural-theorist-paul-virillio-on-the-integral-accident/
#MobilityDesign #roads #RoadToll #crashes #CarDependency #PublicTransport #cars #vehicles #SystemicRisk #SacrificeZone #FossilFuels #speed -
Killer roads
"Five people died and four were injured in three car crashes across NSW since 2pm Monday. Federal data released this week shows the national road death toll increased 7 per cent from 2022 to last year, while the NSW toll jumped 25 per cent."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-16/horror-night-on-nsw-roads-with-five-dead-across-the-state/103323250They call for more data on the "death Toll", money and more (killer) roads, but never for a radical infrastructure redesign. No data on "roadkill" of native animals either.
#RoadDeaths #trauma #crashes #survivors #LifelongInjuries #sacrifice #RoadToll #SUVs #roads #FossilFuel #speed #Pedestrians #wildlife #MobilityDesign #walking #footpaths #CyclePaths
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Crashes not 'accidents'
"More than 5,800 people who have been killed on Australian roads over the past five years."
"Vehicle crashes are the most common cause of death for Australian children and the second most common cause of death for those aged 15-24."
"More than 1,250 people have been killed in crashes already this year — the highest number since 2016."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/australia-road-toll-deadliest-in-seven-years/103274426
#Crashes #Cars #roads #RoadCrime #Speed #crime #Trauma #VisionZero #RoadToll #RoadKill #CarDependency #MobilityDesign -
The deadly system of automobile dependency
"Speed is still the major reason why people either get killed or seriously injured in crashes. We can't ignore the facts, and we are seeing a significant increase in death rates around the country. The cumulative effect of 100 dead every month, and 100 hospitalised every day — it's an epidemic. A tragic epidemic...Much of the safety focus is on fatalities, more than 60,000 Australians a year survive crashes on the roads. For many, recovery is a lifelong struggle."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-19/after-years-of-decline-australia-road-toll-is-rising-730/103230110"Data released by the nation’s peak motoring body showed 2023 was the deadliest year on Australia’s roads in five and a half years, with the road death toll reaching 1,253 – the highest since 1,270 people were killed in the 12 months to March 2018....The most common killers on the road were all avoidable: speeding, drug use, drink-driving and inattention."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/20/nsw-crash-deaths-kamilaroi-highway-gunnedah-curlewis"Road transportation is the most complex and deadly system that people must face on a daily basis.">
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10154805/
#cars #motorists #roads #transportation #speed #crashes #risks #mutilation #denial #RoadToll #sacrifice #IntegralAccident #MobilityDesign -
Killer roads
Where is the infrastructure where one does not have to be propelled by fossil fuel at high speed?
Each (new) road should have a shady and separated cycling and walking infrastructure factored in.
Wildlife crossings all along the way.Australia’s road toll continues to rise with 37 additional people killed in 'accidents' compared to the previous 12 months, despite a nationwide target to halve road deaths by 2030.
“The rising road toll came despite a National Road Safety Action Plan target to halve deaths by 2030 and cut serious transport injuries by 30%. In 2023, Australia is unable to adequately quantify the extent of road trauma, or the effectiveness of interventions being deployed to reduce it.”
#FatalAccidents #RoadToll #RoadDeaths #RoadTrauma #IntegralAccident #speed #RoadSafety #VisionZero #failure #NorthBankRoad #so50s #NSW #climate #FossilFuel #mobility #carnage #infrastructure #risks #sacrifice
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy At approximately 30 Covid-19 deaths per day in the last week in Australia, this is higher than the average number of Australian road deaths in a similar period. Yet, the police have been mobilised to address the #roadtoll (especially during the holidays). #Covid-19 is apparently not as concerning. I would agree that sound decision making is required. I wonder if or when we will see it.
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The *real* road toll ...
"It shows air pollution kills about 3300 people each year - with vehicle emissions responsible for two thirds of those, nearly 10 times the road death toll."
#HamishCardwell, 2022
