As an Australian I can tell you this is categorically untrue. Each state or territory in Australia has its own state-based police force. Each force has its own policy on high speed chases. In New South Wales (where I live) the NSW Police Force allows officers to pursue vehicles in certain circumstances. Individual officers are supposed to continuously evaluate the situation and call off any pursuit should it become too dangerous to the public. From what one reads in the papers this occurs from time to time. However, every few years or so innocent people are killed in accidents which occur during high speed police pursuits. These accidents are almost always caused by the fleeing vehicle.

A lot of suggestions I'm seeing are not suitable for anyone shooting RAW, even if only irregularly. Sites like Flickr do not exist to provide disaster recovery for your photography archive and treating them as such will only end in tears.

My photography archive is approximately 100GB in size. I keep it safe in the following way:

1. Primary datastore lives on PC.
2. Sync primary datastore to second HDD internal to PC whenever changes are made. I use Beyond Compare for this.
3. Sync primary datastore to external HDD whenever changes are made. Beyond Compare again.
4. Burn to blu-ray once I hit my bucket size of ~24GB[1]
5. Backblaze online backup for offsite disaster recovery. Costs $5/month or less if you sign up for a year.

1. If you care at all about keeping the fruits of your photography labours safe, I cannot recommend highly enough Peter Krogh's "Digital Asset Management for Photographers, 2e". The bucket concept is from there. See http://www.thedambook.com/