❓ The Minister for Police and Emergency Services outlines the Easter road safety campaign, including double demerit points, increased police presence, and targeting various driving offences to reduce road deaths.
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ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN — EASTER HOLIDAY PERIOD
Will the minister advise the house about this year’s Easter road safety campaign? Mr J.C. KOBELKE
Will the minister advise the house about this year’s Easter road safety campaign? Mr J.C. KOBELKE
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I thank the member for her question. I think we are all well aware that Easter is a time when many people travel and many more cars are on the road. Unfortunately, it is a time when the number of road deaths increases. Looking through the figures over a number of years, three to five deaths seem to occur on average over the Easter period. It is therefore a time when people need to be particularly vigilant. People need to be able to enjoy Easter with their friends and family and, hopefully, remain safe. A whole range of actions are being taken to ensure that the roads are kept safe. It is another weekend on which there are double demerit points; that started from midnight last night and will go through until Monday evening. Those double demerit points apply to a whole range of offences, such as speeding, drink-driving, non-use of restraints and so on. Of course, the police will be very active over the Easter period targeting not only the usual key areas of speeding, alcohol, seatbelts and fatigue, but also antisocial driving and driving while distracted, such as when using mobile phones. The police will be out in strength on the roads. Speed traps will be in various places where they have not usually been. The drug bus and the booze bus will be at various places, without warning, to try to get that message through. Hopefully, we will find that people will show a bit of courtesy on the roads because it is a time when many roads have heavy traffic, which means that people must travel a bit more slowly. I am sure that all members would have witnessed an occasion in heavy traffic when someone has done something stupid in order to get in front of vehicles. We hope that people will be driving with respect for other road users, driving safely and not trying to get to their destination as quickly as possible, breaking the speed limit or going faster than is safe at a given time. We trust that this Easter the roads will be safe, although I understand there has already been a fatality at the start of the Easter period. I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for her question. I think we are all well aware that Easter is a time when many people travel and many more cars are on the road. Unfortunately, it is a time when the number of road deaths increases. Looking through the figures over a number of years, three to five deaths seem to occur on average over the Easter period. It is therefore a time when people need to be particularly vigilant. People need to be able to enjoy Easter with their friends and family and, hopefully, remain safe. A whole range of actions are being taken to ensure that the roads are kept safe. It is another weekend on which there are double demerit points; that started from midnight last night and will go through until Monday evening. Those double demerit points apply to a whole range of offences, such as speeding, drink-driving, non-use of restraints and so on. Of course, the police will be very active over the Easter period targeting not only the usual key areas of speeding, alcohol, seatbelts and fatigue, but also antisocial driving and driving while distracted, such as when using mobile phones. The police will be out in strength on the roads. Speed traps will be in various places where they have not usually been. The drug bus and the booze bus will be at various places, without warning, to try to get that message through. Hopefully, we will find that people will show a bit of courtesy on the roads because it is a time when many roads have heavy traffic, which means that people must travel a bit more slowly. I am sure that all members would have witnessed an occasion in heavy traffic when someone has done something stupid in order to get in front of vehicles. We hope that people will be driving with respect for other road users, driving safely and not trying to get to their destination as quickly as possible, breaking the speed limit or going faster than is safe at a given time. We trust that this Easter the roads will be safe, although I understand there has already been a fatality at the start of the Easter period. I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
I thank the member for her question. I think we are all well aware that Easter is a time when many people travel and many more cars are on the road. Unfortunately, it is a time when the number of road deaths increases. Looking through the figures over a number of years, three to five deaths seem to occur on average over the Easter period. It is therefore a time when people need to be particularly vigilant. People need to be able to enjoy Easter with their friends and family and, hopefully, remain safe. A whole range of actions are being taken to ensure that the roads are kept safe. It is another weekend on which there are double demerit points; that started from midnight last night and will go through until Monday evening. Those double demerit points apply to a whole range of offences, such as speeding, drink-driving, non-use of restraints and so on. Of course, the police will be very active over the Easter period targeting not only the usual key areas of speeding, alcohol, seatbelts and fatigue, but also antisocial driving and driving while distracted, such as when using mobile phones. The police will be out in strength on the roads. Speed traps will be in various places where they have not usually been. The drug bus and the booze bus will be at various places, without warning, to try to get that message through. Hopefully, we will find that people will show a bit of courtesy on the roads because it is a time when many roads have heavy traffic, which means that people must travel a bit more slowly. I am sure that all members would have witnessed an occasion in heavy traffic when someone has done something stupid in order to get in front of vehicles. We hope that people will be driving with respect for other road users, driving safely and not trying to get to their destination as quickly as possible, breaking the speed limit or going faster than is safe at a given time. We trust that this Easter the roads will be safe, although I understand there has already been a fatality at the start of the Easter period. I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
Hopefully, we will find that people will show a bit of courtesy on the roads because it is a time when many roads have heavy traffic, which means that people must travel a bit more slowly. I am sure that all members would have witnessed an occasion in heavy traffic when someone has done something stupid in order to get in front of vehicles. We hope that people will be driving with respect for other road users, driving safely and not trying to get to their destination as quickly as possible, breaking the speed limit or going faster than is safe at a given time. We trust that this Easter the roads will be safe, although I understand there has already been a fatality at the start of the Easter period. I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
Mr J.C. KOBELKE replied: I thank the member for her question. I think we are all well aware that Easter is a time when many people travel and many more cars are on the road. Unfortunately, it is a time when the number of road deaths increases. Looking through the figures over a number of years, three to five deaths seem to occur on average over the Easter period. It is therefore a time when people need to be particularly vigilant. People need to be able to enjoy Easter with their friends and family and, hopefully, remain safe. A whole range of actions are being taken to ensure that the roads are kept safe. It is another weekend on which there are double demerit points; that started from midnight last night and will go through until Monday evening. Those double demerit points apply to a whole range of offences, such as speeding, drink-driving, non-use of restraints and so on. Of course, the police will be very active over the Easter period targeting not only the usual key areas of speeding, alcohol, seatbelts and fatigue, but also antisocial driving and driving while distracted, such as when using mobile phones. The police will be out in strength on the roads. Speed traps will be in various places where they have not usually been. The drug bus and the booze bus will be at various places, without warning, to try to get that message through. Hopefully, we will find that people will show a bit of courtesy on the roads because it is a time when many roads have heavy traffic, which means that people must travel a bit more slowly. I am sure that all members would have witnessed an occasion in heavy traffic when someone has done something stupid in order to get in front of vehicles. We hope that people will be driving with respect for other road users, driving safely and not trying to get to their destination as quickly as possible, breaking the speed limit or going faster than is safe at a given time. We trust that this Easter the roads will be safe, although I understand there has already been a fatality at the start of the Easter period. I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
I thank the member for her question. I think we are all well aware that Easter is a time when many people travel and many more cars are on the road. Unfortunately, it is a time when the number of road deaths increases. Looking through the figures over a number of years, three to five deaths seem to occur on average over the Easter period. It is therefore a time when people need to be particularly vigilant. People need to be able to enjoy Easter with their friends and family and, hopefully, remain safe. A whole range of actions are being taken to ensure that the roads are kept safe. It is another weekend on which there are double demerit points; that started from midnight last night and will go through until Monday evening. Those double demerit points apply to a whole range of offences, such as speeding, drink-driving, non-use of restraints and so on. Of course, the police will be very active over the Easter period targeting not only the usual key areas of speeding, alcohol, seatbelts and fatigue, but also antisocial driving and driving while distracted, such as when using mobile phones. The police will be out in strength on the roads. Speed traps will be in various places where they have not usually been. The drug bus and the booze bus will be at various places, without warning, to try to get that message through. Hopefully, we will find that people will show a bit of courtesy on the roads because it is a time when many roads have heavy traffic, which means that people must travel a bit more slowly. I am sure that all members would have witnessed an occasion in heavy traffic when someone has done something stupid in order to get in front of vehicles. We hope that people will be driving with respect for other road users, driving safely and not trying to get to their destination as quickly as possible, breaking the speed limit or going faster than is safe at a given time. We trust that this Easter the roads will be safe, although I understand there has already been a fatality at the start of the Easter period. I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
Hopefully, we will find that people will show a bit of courtesy on the roads because it is a time when many roads have heavy traffic, which means that people must travel a bit more slowly. I am sure that all members would have witnessed an occasion in heavy traffic when someone has done something stupid in order to get in front of vehicles. We hope that people will be driving with respect for other road users, driving safely and not trying to get to their destination as quickly as possible, breaking the speed limit or going faster than is safe at a given time. We trust that this Easter the roads will be safe, although I understand there has already been a fatality at the start of the Easter period. I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
I certainly wish all members a safe and happy Easter. I trust that we will be able to finish our business a little earlier today, so that those members who have to get away to drive home to their electorates can do so without being in the midst of that heavy traffic.
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