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Victoria continues to lose precious lives on its roads.

With no formal driver training, no formal driver responsibility education,

no formal investigative process into the cause of crashes, there will

always be a disaster just around the corner. It is about time that car

manufactures were held to account for the marketing of their cars to

young drivers.

Lets face it Holden has the monopoly on young drivers and cars, high

powered or otherwise.  It is a marketing win for them. 

It is socially irresponsible the way cars are promoted.   With the

Government ready to put in place serious education for binge drinking,

why don’t they do some serious educating about the responsibility

drivers have on the road to all students prior to them getting their

licence?

  Deaths on the road are the highest preventable deaths in the

country and yet they are ignored at every level where education is

concerned.

This generation of underage binge drinkers are the next generation of

drivers on the roads.

It is time for Alcohol Interlocks to be looked at for probationary

drivers.

It is time the powers to be started looking at preventing road deaths

instead of standing up and saying their isn’t anything else they can do.

This implies they have done everything and they clearly haven’t. 

The Major Collision Investigative Unit is understaffed and over

worked.  Crashes will not be expertly investigated because when the

driver dies, no charges will be laid, so therefore there are never any

reports placed about the whys and hows of these crashes occurring.

There is never any investigation as to what driver training has occurred,

if any, and the quality of the person who provided it, yet they tell us that

driver training doesn’t work. How do they know?

They never investigate these things on our roads in our country.

 We have 50 serious injuries everyday and these could easily be 50

fatalities every day, which proves that the causes are not changing, yet

they are never investigated by the experts at the Major Collision Unit

because of staffing and a lack of understanding by the government as to

the importance of investigating the causes to prevent further trauma.

  Most daily crashes are not even looked at even by the local police, let

alone the experts in crashes, so the driver who runs up your backside

at high speed, who could be drunk or drugged, is never held

accountable for his driving, the cause of the crash is never investigated

and the same carnage continues to happen again and again every day.

Give the Major Collison Investigative Unit the staff and powers to

assault this deep seated problem and rid our roads of the drivers that

choose to ignore simple road laws that cost innocent people their lives.

The government has to stop spinning the road toll because it is giving

people a false sense of security, it is making people believe that the

only people who die on the roads have virtually killed themselves and

this couldn’t be further from the truth. There are many causes of road

trauma and there isn’t reason why they cannot all be addressed at the

same time.

  People are multi skilled these days and can cope with more than one

change at a time.   When families discover themselves in this horrible

world of road deaths they are shocked at what isn’t in place to protect

them. Even very serious crashes are not investigated if every person is

lucky enough to escape unharmed, regardless of the cause. 

The driver may go on and kill somebody the next week and it will be

looked at as a first offence.

Perhaps had warning signs been heeded

and investigated further many families would not be suffering today.