School zones and the demographic who disobeys them.
Like most of us do, I drive through a significant amount of school zones. It’s quite easy to notice the drivers who breach the rules because they’re the ones who pass you. At the start of the year I decided to conduct an informal study of those who speed through school zones, and shall provide my findings. I live in the Illawarra in the Shellharbour district.
The demographic of drivers who disregard school zones the most from my research are females who drive late model or expensive vehicles. Age or ethnicity have no part to play - it seems to strictly be the gender and wealth. The majority zoom past me as if the school zone isn’t even there.
Second is men of an ethnicity other than white Anglo. They drive any sort of vehicle, and will often travel just over the 40kph, as if they’re aware of the school zone but maintain a speed just over the limit.
Third place surprised me. I would be sure that P platers would feature as a majority in my top three, but it appears to be young, white men in tradie style utes - toolboxes, ladders etc. loaded up with a company/cintractor logo on the vehicle. This is equally surprising as I figure that tradies spend a significant amount of time on the roads, and would adhere more to the rules.
My conclusion is wealthy women harbour a sense of entitlement that is dangerous on the road.