A new road safety plan for the NT will see more officers patrolling Territory roads over the next six weeks to stem the surging road toll.
The ‘Towards Zero Road Safety Action Plan 2024-28’, unveiled on Thursday, is a response to the alarming number of road deaths in the NT. With more police presence, random breath tests, roadside drug tests, and roving speed cameras, the plan targets dangerous drivers on NT roads, where 40 lives have been lost just halfway through the year, compared to a total of 31 last year.
Debris on roads is a factor that has caused some of our most tragic accidents. But the NT Police confirmed years ago that speed is their only priority and if they can reduce the speed all else will be less trauma so there no need to focus on unsecured loads and other factors. It has not worked has it. Its simply a tragic failure of one eyed focus on speed ever since we got the Territory Labor ever reducing speed limits and ever increasing fines.
More booze buses or speed camera’s in Darwin will do nothing to reduce fatal crashes which mostly happen on the open road, nor will it do anything about pissed pedestrians getting run over.
Davo & Nelson are absolutely correct!