Now that we have the 'code-black' policy to knock would-be overnight public hospital patients out with tranquilisers for a week or so in ICU against their will, there's no need for accidents outside the hospital. Just drug the patient senseless and they'll stay in bed indefinitely if there's a patient shortage.

Moreover, if funding is on the agenda, they'll just send a couple of cops over with an ambulance and drag the required patient down to the hospital at gunpoint, and then try to charge the abductee $600 for the 3km ambulance ride, so don't doubt the resourcefulness of the public health sector to still put bums on seats when everybody is driving carefully and making do quite okay without them.
Zey haf vays off makink you pay.

I looked at the thread a few times and walked away.
Not because of any post, the subject is very raw to me.
73 dead body's, that is how many my work life on roads saw me involved in.
Needless deaths as many as 4 in one event 4 times in fact.
12 in one week, our highway once killed in very big numbers.
Every one at such scenes understands it is a waste, need never have happened.
One of the best cops you could know had a break down after his tally got to 18, he never worked again.
Every one at that site, every dollar spent, could be better employed some other place.
The death toll is about 20% of totals no industries, none, can not be redirected to other tasks.
Would any of us? just one say we should not look for a cure for cancer because it would cost jobs?

I recall a conversation in 1997 between a few of us 1st year psycho students outside the common room between lectures, and someone suggested a now-forgotten but somewhat idealistic cure to the mental disorders of the world, and to that, another student added the perfect conversation stopper when she said, "but then us psychologists would have no jobs." or something to that meaning.

It might mirror in some ways to Kohlberg's famous moral dilemma, "Heinz steals the drugs." where the monetary value of life is part of the jigsaw.

That might beg the question of whose money and whose life?
Ours or theirs?

Belly, I hate accidents just as much as anyone, perhaps with the exception of the odd towy.

But seriously, where would these people be employed if not for the amount of accidents caused on our roads.

It's just like traffic offenders, sure, remove them, but then who pays the bills for the road works?

My question remains, can we afford not to have them?