Road safety researchers want maximum speed limits in built-up areas cut, saying it has saved lives overseas.
They want the maximum default speed to be 30 or 40 kilometres per hour instead of 50kph.An emergency road safety summit will be held in WA next month to consider possible solutions.Share article
"We seem to think in Australia that to get people to slow down, we need to change the way our streets are structured," Dr Kent said."In Wales, they didn't do any of that. We could do the same thing here in Australia. It's just having the political will to go through it." "You will have results, and you will have the legacy of showing that you've been able to eliminate so many of those traumatic incidents on our roads."It is one of the ideas being put forward ahead of the WA government's emergency road safety summit scheduled for early next month.
"A lot of what's happening is down to driver behaviour … unfortunately — the old chestnuts of speeding and not driving to conditions, drink driving, being inattentive with the use of mobile phones." He also called for a rescue helicopter to be redeployed to the Midwest, and an increased police presence on regional roads to deter speeding and other poor behaviour.A need for 'fundamental change'
Speed Limit Road Driving Regional Speeding Fatalities Crash Default Speed Limits 50Kph Road Deaths Road Toll Lower Speed Limits Plantagenet Shire David Michael WA Centre For Road Safety Research University Of Sydney Teresa Senserrick WA Road Safety Minister Martin Aldridge WA Road Safety Commissioner Adrian Warner
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