Talking further on National Road Safety Week starting today – a time
surely to reflect on the current poor driving standard in this state, The
campaign is national however we still don’t have a set of national road
rules – individual states still singing from a different hymn book. National
Road Safety Week is the work of Peter Frazer who daughter Sarah was
tragically killed by a truck driver in a totally avoidable crash on the Hume
Highway at Mittagong in Feb 2012 when her car broke down. Tow truck
driver Geoffrey Clark and Sarah were loading her car when they were killed
by the passing truck. Soon after N.S.W. expanded the road rule requiring
drivers to slow down to 40km/h for emergency responders to also include
tow truck and roadside assistance workers. Amazingly, Victoria only
announced this week that from July 1 the current road rule requiring
drivers and motorcycle riders to slow down to 40km/h for police, fire, and
ambulance would be expanded - now including tow trucks, roadside
assistance and incident response vehicles displaying flashing lights. It
beggars’ belief that after Sarah Frazer’s tragic death in 2012 it’s taken
Victoria 13 years to implement a road rule which surely should have been
national road rule from Day 1. I’m David Berthon

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