Australia should “reinvent” road safety approach with campaigns on driver attitude and behaviour, Australian Road Safety Foundation Russel White says.
“There’s a lot more work to be done,” Mr White told Sky News Australia.
“What we’re seeing now is really a culmination of a whole stack of events in terms of the pandemic, but it is pretty clear that we need to reinvent our approach to road safety.”
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Used to be 4000 road deaths per year when we had half the people in this country and as he said, we got it down to 1200, not bad at all. But it went up mysteriously over the last year? Heart attacks are off the charts now! Gee, what changed?💉🫀😂🤣
Well, what do you expect? As Australia’s population increases from outside, expect more car accidents/ deaths and more drownings on beaches.
Dual cab ute drivers are terrible drivers.
I now know lots of people with heart conditions. That’s changed in the last 18 months.
More uve just deployed 4000 of them I wa pa's through 3 of them from mundaring to northam how fucken many we need im looking at my speedo more than the road now reducing speeds in rural arias just make drivers frustrated and more likely to do somthing stupid
"We've tried authoritarian BS about 'speed kills' and it didn't work. What can we do? Do it again!"
Literally fitting the meme definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
That would be if you weren't skeptical enough to see it's all a scam to charge you for nonsense to pay for more nonsense govt programs and not fixing the roads.
I do think that the roads we are travelling on have not been updated as quick as the car , truck and population has been increasing hence the vehicle crash going on .
I dont know about anyone else out there but I dont have time to watch the road ahead and other users, I am to busy trying to keep track of the never ending different and changing road speeds, 40 kms, 50 kms, 60 kms, 70 kms, 80 kms, 90 kms, 100 kms, 110 kms and even rarely 120 kms. Trying to keep track of what zone I am in so I don’t get a ticket takes all my concentration. Then there are the road work signs and zone, for months the sign says 60 kms road works ahead and you drive through and there is nothing no men, no machines and no road work, and they go on and on for miles with nothing happening, these people that do this should be charged and fined for public nuisance. Then there are the roads themselves, country roads are unbelievable, and they are getting worse, pot hole that blow tyres out is the least of it. Qld are the worst they have a four foot drop of the edge, you go over the white line your gone, you ain’t coming back from that.
Simple answer: Higher taxes, bigger government, more powers to police and fewer freedoms for the plebs…..
Not sea grubs
Victoria police do not breath test you if you run over children in Victoria.
Catherine Andrews was not breath tested.
Shame Victoria Police
but it is nothing to do with police officers hiding in bushes jumping out and distracting drivers
Not as deadly as the poke
Excuses.
It is, was and will be all about $$$.
Wake up sheep, its all revenue raising while the criminals do as they please.
Fix the roads. Revisit the training. Enforce track days. Link the license to the type of car, drivers age and experience and history. Use technology to restrict.
Or keep complaining.
Back to hiding for revenue raising
If the automobile was invented today, it would be banded for being too dangerous.
Nanna purge coming for serfs in motorised chariots and scooters & Pravda is kind enough to warn us. You will drive very slowly and be happy.
Ying and yang they were the worst drives there along with ping and porg
Every political problem ends with the people handing over money to a government that threw them under the bus the first day they got in.
Driver education in this country is a joke at best! Non existent actually! It's not how many hours driven but the quality of education that will ultimately reduce deaths. That is blatantly obvious from countries that has an actual driver education.
We have the safest roads in the history of motoring in Australia.
Don't fix what ain't broken
I have never heard of so many accidents both on the road and in the air I have never heard as many ambulances going past my neighborhood since this year and not one MSM journalist has bothered to ask why just blame the people and behaviour, and yet there are less people.
Statistically, per driver, this is bullshit. The few dumbasses stuff for the majority. Waste of funding. How about we fix the roads first?
In 2021, there were 1,123 road crash deaths. This is an increase of 2.6 per cent from 2020. Over the decade, fatalities decreased from approximately 1,300 per year to 1,100 per year, despite am increase in population. By contrast, COVID deaths for 2022 (after the feds opened our borders to save our economy) are around 13,459. As such, I am still to be convinced that these "road safety" measures are about saving lives and not about increasing the "economy" of state government coffers.
How about a story on all cause mortality and how the death rate is up when it should be down after a pandemic or did something else happen that is killing people
Bottom line they let unqualified operators on the road. Absolute joke they don't bring up that it's the main cause. Bring in as many rules as you want and ai driven vehicles accidents happen weather you like it or not people aren't on the ball any more and want everything done for them.
How about the government stops the scams like towards zero. This is no different to a zero covid policy.
so many drivers in QLD cant even keep their car on their own side of the road /crossing double lines everywhere they drive
No we dont
How many of those accidents are from P platers or foreigners with little knowledge of driving in Australian conditions? The amount of stupidity I see on the roads today is easily fixed.
Australia is the land of road fines! We lead the world….isn’t it good? Road Safety is just a cliche nowadays and the cops love it when people break any of the million raid laws!
They don't want you safe. They want you controlled.
Freedom by its nature, is danger.
The more you sell your freedoms, the "safer" you are. Until the only danger is the government holding your freedom by the balls
Just tell all car manufacturers to design their cars to not able to do more than 70kmh, easy!
All these 'safety' measures are now more of a distraction than an actual safety measure.
With so many speed cameras everywhere, why aren't the roads safer hmmm?
Speed enforcement obviously doesn’t work. Go faster. Much faster.
WTF is wrong with the Australian GOV wanting to "control' every facet of public life? "Totalitarian much"
Parking ticket inspectors in blue.
Get a real job.
Bureaucrats failing to spend money on better roads and instead giving themselves more money to pretend to work by lowering speeds.
We already have a saturation of cameras and the toll is rising. This guy is a dill. All about stealing your money. I dont give a toss about his safety and let me assure you, he doesn't give a toss about yours. Hypocrisy.
Too much Safety is a dangerous thing, so too is treating motorists with utter contempt
Speed cannot cause an accident it can only be a contributing factor and that’s why we can’t fix the problem because we barking up the wrong tree.