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[stellar_muddle]

Now I like that idea.
(Unfortunately missed the seminars on that yesterday).

Oh, and drive safely over the long weekend - take plenty of breaks to stop and enjoy the scenery. Drive to the conditions (not forecast to be nice on Sat...). Pay attention to the idiots around you, but don't let them stress you, and definitely don't play idiot one-up-manship. Just because they are behaving badly, doesn't mean you need to. You will have far less fun over the weekend if you are dead.

We managed a couple of road crash death free weekends a while back. It would be nice if they could be repeated.

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I know that the NZ stats include enough information that we can get an idea of say crashes caused by drunk drivers, who of those were killed themselves (overall totals), how many of their passengers were killed and which other road users were killed. The fact sheets linked off the Ministry of Transport research part of their website have some comparisons like that for Alcohol/drugs, Diverted attention, Fatigue, (sort of) Motorcycles, Speed, Trucks, and Young drivers - navigate via the side bar down the left and you can find the pdfs eventually - it isn't the easiest site to get around unfortunately. There are possibly patterns there wrt who dies under what conditions...

I dodn't know if there are equivalent fact sheets/stats breakdowns for Sweden.

In NZ suicides are not counted in the road toll, as long as they are known to be suicides. Don't know what the case is in Sweden.

One issue is that I don't know the difference in injury rates for each country, since there can be differences in how people count injuries. High density urban traffic situations are more likely to result in injury crashes cf open roads where the higher speeds mean fatalities are more likely.

Time to head off to Folk Festival, but happy to discuss later if you like.