Tim Blair can’t be accused of Steynwalling (this useful term is due to the other Tim), at least on this occasion. After running a standard speeder’s rant about “revenue-raising” in Thursday’s Oz, he very graciously linked to the Letters page, where he was, IMHO, comprehensively demolished.

Anyone who is inclined to take Blair’s claims seriously (as usual with pro-speeding rants, he doesn’t provide any evidence or any real argument) might care to compare road death statistics for Australia (and particularly Victoria, his target on this occasion) with those of the US, where road safety laws are enforced much less vigorously. I’ll try and provide a link to these sometime soon.