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Easter road toll 2013 turns the clock up a quarter century
Shot through the car and more than maimed, you can see all the bodies in bags claimed. Up over down under and squeezing out joie de vivre from the passenger side, Easter once more promises all ...
Written Friday, 5 April 2013 under Death and Biscuits
Off a cliff under 50 in the 2012 national holiday road toll
Sobriety never gets in the way of a healthy strewing of debris and police tape to chalk road fatalities across the Christmas and New Year's period. Two down from last session and it's a tidy cut ...
Written Sunday, 6 January 2013 under Death and Biscuits
Easter road toll hobbles through a skinny night
Done with a case of caskets careening through the car crashes, the stats on the Easter 2012 period looms a shadow of its former self. We enter through the umbra and flip the soundtrack from John ...
Written Friday, 4 May 2012 under Death and Biscuits
Foreclosing a 50/50 split on the national holiday road toll
Spit and split the grave sites, the bitumen curls up plenty on the hot Christmas and New Year's holiday road toll to cut the advance where a tree trains a wreck.
Written Wednesday, 11 January 2012 under Death and Biscuits
Easter road toll savours an extra long inning
Home is a warm place, a hearth of fire, flames and bodies gathering to swap stories as they cross into each other's lives. And so, with the fallen and the risen again, the extra long weekend sees ...
Written Friday, 29 April 2011 under Death and Biscuits
Fear not the floods against New Year holiday road toll
Quiet goes the night, hugging itself a blend of the blood curdling screams and bones snapping under scoliotic metal chassis. While up north where Queensland find their waterbeds overfloweth and ...
Written Thursday, 13 January 2011 under Death and Biscuits
Easter road toll rides on the backs of motorbikes
Cement, bitumen, guard rails, trees and the oncoming tonnes of vehicular metal flying down the opposite direction. All natural enemies of the living breathing occupants of cars along the Easter ...
Written Thursday, 8 April 2010 under Death and Biscuits
Fires fail to flameout festive holiday road toll
Life takes a toll on death, dying as the screams from inside the crumpling metal chassis wreck in careening pile-ups on the nation's highways and streets.
Written Friday, 15 January 2010 under Death and Biscuits
Easter road toll flips the flaming wrecks back to NSW
Fry away the broken eggs and scrambled legs; New South Wales returns to Easter corpse making form. Upending the body count of 2008, the state showing up last year trying to unlock its doors with a ...
Written Wednesday, 15 April 2009 under Death and Biscuits
Dozen more scrambled eggs on holiday road toll over easy 2008
Sizzle, crack, pop and taste twisted omelettes with the sunny-side up. Outperforming the previous holiday road toll season, 2008-2009 wrapped more in black to return to days above the half ton.
Written Tuesday, 6 January 2009 under Death and Biscuits
Anzac Day tolls of death over days of three
Falling under the sound of twisting metal and busting glass, a quiet toll on the roads over the Anzac period. Hush the tones scrawling tyres with a less than stellar sideline of followers, ...
Written Wednesday, 30 April 2008 under Death and Biscuits
Easter road toll 2008 snookers two little ducks
Bunnies, bilbies and bodies, oh my. Crashing is the rightly ritual of the road toll and this year continues that tradition in double deuce fashion. Western Australia, long languishing in the ...
Written Wednesday, 26 March 2008 under Death and Biscuits
Crashing holiday road toll numbers under body count of 2007
Sweep away the rotting flowers and kick over the 46 body bags steaming in the summer sun. Slow turn out on the bloody roads over the Christmas and New Years' holiday period.
Written Monday, 7 January 2008 under Death and Biscuits