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Originally Posted by Falchoon
Probably because there are more drivers on the road (population increase).
There does need to be better driver education. IMO that is the biggest reason for so many crashes. Go to your local shopping centre/shopping mall one day and observe for 15 mins the incompetent drivers that are around. Woman in small 4cyl cars that can't get into a space that a Mack truck would fit in, scraping other cars/poles. Not that car parks have much to do with road toll but if people can't control their vehicles properly at 20km/h what hope have they got at 120km/h?
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Yes the extra congestion on the roads would be a factor, but I think you've nailed the main cause in the second half of your post, people can't drive!
Think about it for a second. 30 years ago we had giant metal boxes with heavy chrome bumpers, crumple zones were only just being introduced, inertia real seat belts were only just coming about, steering columns were solid, cars had 14x5 inch wheels wrapped with crappy bias ply tyres, side impact protection was unheard of.
Now days we've got air bags front and side, seat belt pretensioners, crumple zones that would write a car off in a 50 kph crash, doors that weigh twice as much due to side impact protection,
ABS, traction control, power steering standard on everything, road tyres that have more grip than slicks of the 70's, etc, etc, etc.
Look at all that, factor in the number of accidents today and it's a wonder anyone drove a car in the 70's and lived to tell the tale.