PASSENGERS SAVED

Passengers lives have now been seen to be worthy of saving

In a massive turn around the Victorian Government has made a

decision to limit the amount of passengers a probationary driver

can carry.

In the first twelve months of a probationary licence, drivers will

be limited to one passenger between the ages of 16 to 21

The government has decided that the evidence is overwhelming

and this will be a life saving measure.

Even though the very reason for not doing it before was that there wasn’t any evidence!

We do not have a problem with any government that changes its

mind, especially when we now have a new premier in

John Brumby. 

Well done John Brumby for listening.

This is one of the problems with road safety action. 

Every time a govt has a change and new ministers are introduced,

there doesn’t seem to be any handover of prior knowledge.

  You have to start from scratch all over again.

Hopefully we now have a premier who is going to take the loss

of life on the roads as a serious problem and not one that is 

  ''meant to be’’

SEE ARRIVE ALIVE:   http://www.arrivealive.vic.gov.au/node/208


 Passengers are never mentioned as anything other than the

reason that probationary drivers crash, but the sad reality is that

young drivers will continue to die because driver responsibility is

never taught.      It is always somebodys elses fault



click on link below to article in The Age


http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/133-and-why-this-grieving-mother-thinks-theyre-overdue/2008/02/06/1202233951241.html