This does not actually have any of their own stats but refer you to vicroads, Australian Transport Safety Bureau Statistics, an OECD database and a US stat site.
VicRoads: The crashstats database does not appear to distinguish driver age - or even speed.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau Statistics:
Take note of Table 2 of the 04 summary (
http://www.atsb.gov.au/road/statistics/current_road_fatality_statistics.aspx)
-It shows a 4% increase in deaths among the 17-25s as compared to a 28% increase among 60-69s.
Table 3 shows that more men than women drivers die however I would suggest that this is exaggerated as more men drive than women and out of male and female drivers males tend to spend more time driving. This increases their exposure to accidents and thus even if they were to have just as many accidents per/km as females they would be over-represented.
Final take on these stats: No casual link between speed and accidents is made. There is a correlation between speed zones and accident rates however none is shown with driver speed.
OECD Database:
Firstly I'll make the point that this covers Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA.
It doesnt appear to have anything particularly useful.
No link between speed and accidents made.
No hard stats presented except some from the UK.
Again no link between speed and accidents is made.
Interestingly it reveals that 'serious injury' is defined as just one night in hospital and then a discharge.
You knock me for making assumptions about 15 year old cars being shit boxes and then you get on the hypocrisy high horse and assume, no wait AFFIRM, that any car I drive is somehow less well maintained than the cars that I may drive. Good work captain hypocrisy. Could you be any more arrogant?
You made a baseless assumption about any car I drive being a 15 year old shitbox. I assume that any car you drive is about five years old, small and is regularly serviced by your friendly local mechanic. I base this assumption on the high correlation between people who say things like '15 year old shitbox' and people who drive cars as I outlined.
Prove me wrong - how well is your car maintained? How long since the last oil change? When did you last check your fluid levels? How many kms since your tyres were new? How many kms since your tyres were rotated? When did you last check your tyre pressure? What pressure did you put in and why? Is your brake fluid still good? How many kms do your brake pads have left in them? How long is it since you washed your car? Do you properly bed in new pads? What brake pad type do you use?
And if we want to get into pedantics about how 'good' cars may be I think it would be reasonable to assert that cars made today are, generally, safer than cars made 15 years ago.
How is this a reasonable assumption? What major improvements in safety have been made in the last 15 years? Lets think seatbelts, airbags, cumple zones, safety cells, collapsable steering columns all around 15 years ago. In fact four of those five are present on my Volvo and its 33 years old.
Are you asserting that you are some kind of excellent driver? Isn't that the kind of attitude that young, arrogant, foolhardly men like yourself have which causes you to do amazing speeds on public roads in old cars often resulting in deaths - killing themselves and other people as well?
Unless you are going to assert to me that somehow it would be safer for all Provisional licence holders do go just as fast as you as it is the safest way of driving.
I think it takes more than a few defensive driving courses (which do not train you to drive agressively and at many times the legal imit) to make you a driving expert or a 'better driver' that can say he can safely do over 200kmph on oublic roads.
I am not asserting that I am an excellent driver - i know there are better drivers, I am however above par. What I was doing was refuting your accusation that I am an 'inexperienced P-plater'.
I did this by pointing out that I have a higher than normal level of training and a significantly higher than normal level of experience.
How about we keep the race car driving off the public roads ay? Again just because your father was a race car driver doesn't entitle you to drive very fast on public roads.
I never suggested that my fathers racing background entitled me to speed or the like, it doesnt and never will. This has been taken out of context - the mentioning of my fathers racing background was part of the indication that I have a higher level of training than the average P-plater.
This doesn't exactly qualify you to break the law and drive high speed on public roads.
In any event if the police caught you doing those speeds YOU WOULD BE convicted of a traffic offence.
Again this is out of context you are addressing this as if I suggested that my experience qualified me to speed however I made no such assertion. I mentioned my experience solely as a rebuttal of your accusation that I was inexperienced.
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WhereDanton you have:
-Presented no statistical link between speed and accidents a link which you explicitly made in your inital post.
-Intentionally misinterpreted my rebuttals of your initial accustaions in an attempt to set up a straw man argument.
-Failed to establish a base for any of your initial accusations that speeding=dieing, that I am an inexpierenced P-plater or that a fifteen year old car is a shitbox.
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Oh and sk8_boi if you want to test your car at the limit I suggest investigating Oran Park or Eastern Creek if they're anything like Wakefield Park then you should be able to spend a day ripping around the track for about $80-$100 which includes a CAMS licence so if you decide to do it again in the next year it will cost $40 less.