Speed Camera

In Borneo Bull today, it is sad to read the high rate of road fatalities back home, some 54 were recorded last year, that’s 14 per 100,000 population. Compare this to 32 fatalities the year before.

In comparison, Holland is a country with one of the lowest traffic accident mortality. In 2004 it has the lowest number of death rate per capita population in the world, 5 per 100,000 population. I consider this amazing as it got the most confusing road rules – it is a country with millions of bicycles so bicycles rule, on a crossing in urban area the traffic coming from the right has the right of way and situation on roundabouts is quite often unclear. On the motorway everybody literally drives to the limit. So if its 120km/hr, every make of cars you can imagine be it a Mercs or a 30-year old Lada will go equally at 120.

But I suppose all these things make the drivers alert. On top of that there are some 1600 speed cameras to ensure that you abide by the speed limit. Germany which is 10 times bigger only got twice as many traffic cameras. There are also 45 highways, I mean proper highways, scattered across the breadth of the country to ensure smoother flow of traffics.
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