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Bossxr8: If speed cameras worked there would have been a decrease in the road toll, but as we know it's increased. Which is pretty shocking considering how much safer new vehicles have become.
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Not true per registered vehicle or per total vehicle km or however you want to measure it (i.e. just total fatalities) albeit improved roads and vehicle safety are some of the major contributors to the decline.
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https://www.budgetdirect.com.au/car-...tatistics.html
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Every year since 1970 has seen a decrease in the road death toll with numbers dropping from 3,798 in 1970 to 1,145 in 2018. The global average of road fatalities is 18.2 deaths per 100,000 people, with lower income countries suffering a higher prevalence and higher income countries seeing lower rates of fatalities. While Australia’s number of road fatalities is roughly half of those in the US, our fatality rate is nearly twice as bad as the UK’s. Australia is ranked 15th out of 31 OECD countries for deaths per 100,000 population. Europe has some of the lowest fatality rates in the world largely in thanks to measures put in place by the European Road Safety Charter.
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and the
ABS stats
https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-5...etails?q=crash and
https://www.bitre.gov.au/statistics/...crash_database
So using your rational of "If speed cameras worked there would have been a decrease in the road toll" speed cameras must work.