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Attitudes to the road toll
The following comment was made by Rob Streeper in this thread
"Texas has no mandatory driver training program, you get to your 16th birthday, pass written (easy) and practical driving tests (hard to fail) and you get your license."
Got me interested, so I looked up the road toll for Texas:
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And Victoria:
Lives Lost - Annual - TAC - Transport Accident Commission
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3,578 deaths as against 290, even allowing for Texas having almost 5 times the population of Victoria, that is a staggering difference. Makes me wonder what, if anything, the Texas authorities are doing to curtail the road toll.
Texas 27.8 Million (est.)
Victoria 6.29 Million (ABS Sept. 2017)