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Originally Posted by Wokkas
Outbackjack: How long has it been since de-restriction in NT has ended? If you're basing statistics on the fatality count in that short a time frame, then you're obviously using the same flawed system as most government advisors use.
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Gidday Wokkas, its not just the numbers that are taken into account. But you are correct, if you take percentages on such small numbers you get skewered results. But what is important is where the deaths ocurred and what factors came into play. In the NT road toll so far for this year only one accident that incured a fatality has been on the old (//) hiways.
An interesting thing that most people have not connected with the NT road toll at the moment is the fact that the NT abo communities are crawling with federal police and army personell. These folk will be enforcing the dry status of many of these communities. This, I believe, will have a flow on effect to the road toll here in the NT. Of course Clare Martin will try to take credit for this. So we may well see the NT road toll start to take a dip.