Like many young Australians, TAC chief executive Joe Calafiore's first car was a hand-me-down from his parents.
But with young people over-represented in road trauma statistics, it's a practice he wants parents to reconsider.
"We really urge parents to think about that very deeply," he says.
A new car obviously costs more money. But to Joe, safety is not just for the very wealthy.
There are five-star safety-rated cars on sale for under $20,000.
What planet does he live on trying to blame parents for their kids driving skills.
It's hard enough or impossible for most families to come up with that for one child but if they have 2 or 3 kids it
means $40 to $60 thousand dollars for cars (he would earn enough to do it but a large percentage of parents
can't).
Unrealistic statements like that doesn't help in any way at all.
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Unfortunately SA doesn't get enough revenue from rego's,etc to fund a better road system as the state is to
large for them to be maintained and improved to a better standard with not enough finance to do it.
The road from Terowie to Pt Pirie is one you don't want to travel to often either as it's bendy and hilly and so is
travelling from Gawler through Murray Bridge to Mt Gambier and then Portland in Victoria.
Even Victoria which does get good revenue doesn't spend it on a number of country roads but instead
concentrates it on the more populated cities and country roads can suffer (some of our country roads also have
long stretches of highway with no overtaking lanes and are in poor condition).
Then when people have crashes on country roads they blame everything else but not the roads.
