Despite Covid lockdowns right across the country for large chunks of last year and the year before, road fatalities are on the rise.
The pressure is now on governments at both the state and federal level to reassess road safety strategies, if they have any hope of approaching the target of zero road deaths by 2050.
Better road safety planning is needed
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National motoring bodies, road trauma organisations and expert health practitioners are calling on Infrastructure and Transport Minister, Barnaby Joyce, to rethink the current ten-year road safety strategy.
One of the biggest issues, they say, is an uncoordinated approach to collecting road fatality data, which in some cases lags by as much as four years.
