Road Safety - Police Investigations Floored

Again we see the police corrupting investigations with preconceived findings before an investigation!

No wonder we can't reduce the road toll when all the investigators focuss on is speed! For one speed alone doesn't cause road accidents in the vast majority of cases, the only thing speed contributes is an increase in energy that wouldn't be released if there wasn't a tree or pole or other objects. In the second incident a rock wall.


Speed blamed for fatal P-plater crash

November 07, 2006 05:36pm
Article from: AAP

POLICE have blamed speed for a car crash which killed a 16-year-old boy and seriously injured three other youths.

The crash happened near Newcastle, just two weeks after the horrific crash near Byron Bay on the NSW north coast that claimed the lives of four teenagers.

In the latest crash, the 16-year-old boy, a rear-seat passenger, died when the car hit a power pole at Tingara Heights, south of Newcastle, about 2.45am (AEDT) today and split in two, police said.

Two 17-year-old boys and a 17-year-old girl - all three from Windale - were taken to John Hunter Hospital with head injuries.

Two of the teenagers were thrown from the vehicle on impact.

Police say they are unsure who was driving the car and are investigating whether the driver was licensed.

One report has said the dead youth was joyriding with three other teenagers before the crash at the intersection of Violet Town Road and Regent Street.

His grandmother has said she is devastated by his death.

"I just feel so lost. I just was hoping he'd walk back through the door (and that) it's all been a mistake, but it's not going to happen," she said on Channel 10.

"I don't know how anyone survived it, they must have been going at one hell of a speed because it (the wreckage) was mangled."

Police said the Newcastle Crash Investigation Unit was investigating the incident but that "early inquiries indicate speed was a factor in the crash".

It follows the deaths of Corey New, Bryce Wells, Paul Morris, all aged 16, and Mitch Eveleigh, 17, on October 22.

The four were killed when the car left a straight stretch of the Coast Road and struck trees at Broken Head.

Meanwhile, a 61-year-old man died when the car he was driving left the road and crashed into a rock wall near Singleton, north-west of Newcastle.

The crash happened at 5.45pm (AEDT) yesterday on the Putty Road.

Two small dogs travelling in the car suffered minor injuries and were taken to an animal hospital for treatment.