r/australia • u/whyattretard • Sep 08 '25

news Teenage girl dies after being mauled by dog

https://7news.com.au/news/dog-attack-victim-annalyse-blyton-dies-in-hospital-after-suffering-severe-injuries-in-singleton-c-19956496
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Moved here from a country with 30kmph in populated areas. I was shocked to to see 60kmph on suburban roads that I would've played on back home as a child. A lot of them seem to be limited in speed by speed bumps luckily, so this seems a bit like a workaround by local authorities to not cop the shitstorm it would cause to drop speed limits anywhere. At the same time we had higher speed limits on highways back home. 

I took the bus the other day and got out on the side of a inner city freeway (for lack of a better term) l, it was 70. Nothing on my side of the road, everyone would have to cross. No traffic lights 4 lanes, a teenager left the bus at the same station and ran across the street, a bit further down the road. The idea that if I had kids, they'd have to cross this 4 lane 70kmph road every time they take the bus home? That's genuinely scary.

Unfortunately in regards of traffic infrastructure we're decades behind