A Police Captain in todays Peninsula said:

"Violations have come down by an impressive 90 per cent since the introduction of the new traffic laws from October 2."

"He said on the first day the law came into effect, six drivers had been caught without licences and they had been referred to the Public Prosecution. There were also 122 violations related to seat-belts, which was a figure lower than before the law was introduced."

Is he saying that before the new law came in to effect, the Police charged or warned more than 122 drivers for not wearing seat belts per day? Taking his 90% figure, it would mean that on average the police charged or cautioned 1220 people for not wearing seat belts PER DAY!!!
Talk about plucking figures out of the air!

"We have also observed that 95 per cent of the drivers are following the rules related to cell phone use while driving and of fastening seat-belts before hitting the road."

The vast majority of us never did use our mobiles when driving, it was always the minority that were the problem. And how can you measure the number of people using a mobile at 5%?
If 5% of all drivers are using a mobile phone at any one time thats a hugh amount!!!
Or does he mean that 5% of drivers have admitted to at some point driven whilst talking on a phone- which is a very small amount.
Both of these don't ring ( no pun intended) true so I presume he just made this figure up.

So, in 2 days the new laws have been in force, have you seen this miraculous change in law abiding driving?
Thought not.

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-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.