Australia Post releases footage of posties being hit by cars as it urges drivers to ‘keep an eye out’

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/07/australia-post-dash-cam-footage-posties-hit-by-cars-urges-drivers-keep-eye-out

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trk@aussie.zone · 19 pts · 303d (3 replies)

Bright fluro clothes, bright red or white bikes and trikes, usually doing under the speed limit....

Still getting rammed on the regular.

At some point you gotta accept our driving standards are way too low, and our punishments way too lenient. If you have a stack, there's a reason.

DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 302d

Improving driving standards and increasing punishments won't fix this. Drivers will always make mistakes. Cars and trucks are unsafe at any speed and need to be separated from more vulnerable road users.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 303d

Legit. Its like Monty. If you hit that thing you need to have an investigative team go right up your colon because it requires a level of ignorance and obliviousness that should bar you from holding a license

ms_lane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d

To play devils advocate- they need more dark spots. Against the sunlight up some hills, they basically become invisible.

dumbass@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 303d (3 replies)

So that's why my mail is late all the time.

Matty_r@programming.dev · 11 pts · 303d (2 replies)

Maybe stop hitting them with your car then!

Sheppa@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 303d

How else am I mean to give them the "Sorry I didn't miss you" card?

dumbass@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 303d

Well they shouldn't be so easy to spot then!

Zagorath@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 303d

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

Also, come on AusPost... https://crashnotaccident.com/

Salvo@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 302d

Amazingly, Ford Rangers underrepresented in these videos; maybe because they wouldn’t show fatalities in a promotional video.