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BellingenNSWThe deadly 3,000kg car bloat trendAustralians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier"Also in recent years, Australia has spectacularly failed at its mission of bringing down road deaths and serious injuries. Speed – and their proclivity to be driven faster – and overall height make larger vehicles far more likely to kill or cause serious injury when hitting pedestrians, cyclists, motorbikes and smaller cars.""Newstead warns how this mentality can lead to an arms race to larger cars for those wanting to bolster their own safety. Crucially, if a driver can’t make eye contact with a pedestrians, “they are going to drive as though they aren’t there”" >> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/13/australian-suv-huge-ute-obsession-roads-more-dangerous" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/13/australian-suv-huge-ute-obsession-roads-more-dangerous</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/vehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vehicles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SUVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SUVs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/speeding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speeding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RoadViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RoadViolence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/drivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drivers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pedestrians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pedestrians</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CarBloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarBloat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CarMinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarMinds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cyclists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cyclists</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/families" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#families</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SchoolDropOffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SchoolDropOffs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SacrificeZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SacrificeZone</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MobilityDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MobilityDesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#failure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#regulation</a>

BellingenNSWFom Queensland to NSW, the same story:“Koala habitats have got smaller and smaller over the years, and the roads through them have got busier...The animals that draw visitors to the Queensland capital are being run down at an alarming rate. Just three days apart in November, separate pairs of mother and joey koalas were hit by vehicles and left to suffer on the side of the road. They were just hit and left. People don’t stop..This year we've hit over 100 within a 6km radius." vehicle strikes crashes <a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/road-sign-exposes-dark-truth-about-popular-tourist-attraction-030508724.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://au.news.yahoo.com/road-sign-exposes-dark-truth-about-popular-tourist-attraction-030508724.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sprawl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/motorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motorists</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roadkill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roadkill</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDrive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Brisbane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Brisbane</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Bellingen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bellingen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/GlenifferRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlenifferRoad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheGreatKoalaNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SacrificeZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SacrificeZone</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a> makers

BellingenNSWUrban sprawl is destroying wildlife habitatsThe sub-urban package of houses, cars, roads and introduced pets drives Australian native animals out of their habitat. Their homes become eliminated or fragmented by roads which become extinction zones for wildlife. Unleashed cats and dogs maul the remaining homeless survivors.The absolute priority is given to fossil fuel vehicles to fly from a to b at maximum speed. This entails a mobility design that declares any living body an obstacle on 'their path'. Some of the maimed crash survivors get scraped off the roads by volunteers. In some places wildlife admissions at the vet hospital had risen by 400 per cent in the last decade. It's a mono-cultural housing and infrastructure design where bio-diversity is non-existent in minds and policies."More wildlife was being forced into urban areas, leading to collisions with vehicles, attacks by domestic animals, and entanglements in fruit netting. Experts say behavioural changes need to be made and urban sprawl contained to reduce the harm to wildlife." >> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-24/werribee-zoo-injured-wildlife-urban-sprawl-melb-geelong/104614358" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-24/werribee-zoo-injured-wildlife-urban-sprawl-melb-geelong/104614358</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sprawl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/crashes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crashes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BiodiversityCrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/coexist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coexist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SacrificeZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SacrificeZone</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MobilityDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MobilityDesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RescueService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RescueService</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/volunteers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#volunteers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SettlerSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SettlerSociety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a>

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Tell me again why large <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oil</a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/chemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemical</a> companies don't need regulations and oversight:<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/marathon-oil-fire-louisiana-cancer-alley?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/marathon-oil-fire-louisiana-cancer-alley?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollution</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SacrificeZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SacrificeZone</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CorporateLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorporateLies</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AirQuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AirQuality</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ToxicsRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToxicsRelease</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Environmental_Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Environmental_Justice</a>

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