[noflac52]

The facts on vehicle faults causing deaths. It is minimal at best!
I checked all the statistics on this a couple of years back when we were campaigning for a better deal for modified cars in NSW and over a few recent years which are relevant to our cause the fatality number was 1 caused by vehicle fault.

I'm not a big fan of statistics in regard to formulating road rules because they can be manipulated quite easily to skew them to a particular point of view but it is rather telling that it is 1 when compared to fatigue, alcohol and speeding statistics which are generally around the high 20s.

The interesting thing is that the faults were listed as tyres so that really brings into dispute the idea that bombs or modified cars are causing lots of accidents regardless of whether the cars are modified legally or not but still I think that as real car enthusiasts we should set our own standard of making sure our cars are better maintained than the run of the mill commuter cars to put it out there that we are a responsible group by and large and that we don't condone hoon behaviour on public roads.

Its interesting how you are trying to create the image of things not being so good in NSW compared to QLD 2011g6e. I don't think knocking other states vehicles and systems is a positive way of building any national solidarity of enthusiasts! As a matter of fact NSW has a pretty good system for registering modified vehicles now. If we are to succeed in getting laws that are more amenable to being able to continue with our sport a national consolidation of enthusiasts is what we need. Not negativity.

Most people don't like annual road worthies because it is a pain to make sure that every little thing is working correctly when it needs to be checked but if enthusiasts actually make sure their cars are road worthy and legal regardless of annual checks it will go a long way to helping to change the image the public has at the moment.

Trouble is a lot of enthusiasts like to do it the easy way and cheat. When they are caught and defected it is an excuse for current affairs type media to give us another serve.