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Old 26-09-2012, 11:39 AM   #15
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Default Re: Am I doing it wrong... (Road Toll Statistics)

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Originally Posted by graham7773
Re stats, one of the current affairs programs reported in the last 48 hours that more than 30% of smashes are caused by dills using there phones while driving. GPS, Ipods and hands free were included in these stats. It follows that 30% of road deaths would be attributable to the same causes.
I'm not sure about this since I would have thought that people were more likely to use phones/ipods while driving in city areas and therefore at lower speeds. So I wouldn't have thought that those 30 per cent of collisions would result in 30 per cent of fatalities.
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