Another two young kids die by hitting a roadside tree:
http://www.mamamia.com.au/two-boys-die-in-altona-crash/
Isn't it about time that roadside trees are removed?
The amount of times I've heard people dying by hitting a roadside tree is ludicrous.
This is one simple thing to reduce the road toll,(the added benifit is that they could sell them for firewood).
Travelling from Katamatite to Shepparton is a nightmare as you are always looking at branches that overhang
the road and when it rains you watch the dead trees in case they topple,(that's apart from the big roadside
trees that will kill anyone that hits them).
Someone will die because of those trees,(most are Gum trees and one given with Gum trees is that sooner
or later they will drop their branches).
Report them and you get a thank you and that's it.
Nothing gets done until a branch or a tree falls and then it's just cleaned up,(once it's cleaned up there is no
sign that it ever happened),
@icyfroth wrote:Leave the trees alone.
Most motor vehicle accidents occur through excessive speed/alcohol/drugs/fatigue/inattention or a combination thereof.
Why chop down the innocent trees?
Country roads are completely different from city roads and they have all sorts of added dangers.
So in your opinion it's fine if people die because they hit a tree that's about 2 metres from the road edge
or hit a brach that's fallen on the road,(they are preventable accidents).
I just can't believe that people hold human life in such low regard that they believe that a tree is more
important than a human life,(you can always plant more trees away from the road but you can never replace
that human life),
@punch*drunk wrote:I dunno, would it really make enough difference to the road toll to be worthwhile? We lose quite a lot of kids (p platers) on the roads up here, 4 teenagers in one accident a few months back 😞 But honestly, if people continue to drive too fast they will find something to plough into eventually. Clearer roads will only make them go faster IMO, and increase the chances that its another car they hit, especially up here in the forest.
There are some that are purely accidents but I know up here in the hills the majority of them are speeding.
It's those accidents that I'm on about,(if a driver is impaired in some way and it's self inflicted then they are at
fault and shoulder the blame).
But if a driver has to go off the road to avoid a crash,an on coming car,an animal or a branch why should
they die because they then crash into a tree that's too close to the road,(how many fatalities are recorded
as hitting a tree but were actually caused by avoiding animals but not recorded as such because the
animal wasn't killed).
And honestly, it would take about 100 years to chop down enough trees up here to make a difference. It would make some pretty good fire breaks though.
A double win,(they could remove the trees that are within 2 metres of the road first).
Up here a number of accidents happen because of a severe lack of passing lanes so drivers try to pass
slow moving traffic at the wrong time,(it's worst during harvest season).
My mum was killed when the car she was a passenger in hit a tree. It was a perfectly straight stretch of the Hume freeway with just one little cluster of trees and everywhere else was clear. The driver was a learner, not speeding just inexperience, panic and bad luck.
@djilukjilly wrote:Wow, chop down the trees,? what about "global warming"? We need to plant more trees.
Excessive speed and inexperience kills, trees don't kill. What a strange subject anyway.
Plant new ones closer to the fence where they can stop a driver,(not kill them).
They can find a suitable tree "barier" that can slow a car.
As explained,there are lots of other reasons why people die by hitting trees that are to close to the road or
by hitting branches and it's only strange if you have no idea of the dangers country drivers face each day,
@djilukjilly wrote:I grew up in the country and never hit a tree, why? because I took responsibility for myself and my passengers.
Good for you,(lucky as well off course because obviously you haven't had to avoid animals or had branches
fall in front of you car whilst you were doing 100Kms along tree lined roads),
