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Feb 24, 2012

SAFETY ROADS * Australia

* Australia - Issue defect notices to speeding trucks

Sydney,NSW,Australia -ATA Friday Facts -24 February 2012: -- The police should issue a defect notice to any truck found travelling on the flat at more than 100 kilometres per hour, ATA Chief Executive Stuart St Clair said this week... “Speeding is a major cause of truck accidents, and every trucking business needs to have a strong speed management policy. It’s a legal requirement, and also good business,” Stuart said... “But the police need to back up the operators that do the right thing with better on-road speed enforcement. Any truck found travelling on the flat at more than 100 kilometres per hour should be issued with a defect notice, because it must, by definition, have a defective speed limiter. Trucks found travelling at more than 115 kilometres per hour should be grounded until the defect is cleared" ...

* January Road Deaths Australia report

Sydney,NSW,Australia -ATA Friday Facts -24 Feb 2012: -- There were 1302 road deaths in Australia during the year ending January 2012. This was a 1.2 per cent decrease compared to the same period in the previous year... These figures are in the latest Road Death Australia report, released last week by the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics. The report summarises Australian road toll data up to and including January 2012... It reveals that January 2012 saw 103 road deaths Australia wide, with 29 of them occurring in Victoria- over double last January’s toll of 18. However, South Australia managed to halve their January toll, from 12 deaths in January 2011 to 6 in January 2012...

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