Parents of teenagers who lost their lives on WA roads this year hope change will emerge from the state government's snap road safety summit.
Busselton teenager Dakotah Herring was just 19 years old when he died in a motorcycle crash.What's next?Parents of teenagers who lost their lives on West Australian roads this year say they hope some change will emerge from the state government's snap road safety summit.Dakotah Herring was just your average teenager growing up in Busselton , 220 kilometres south of Perth.Mr Herring's mum, Carolyn Herring, said he had a wonderful, determined personality.
That's when she heard the news that Mr Herring had died while riding a motorbike near the Busselton Cemetery. "I'm pleading with parents that when your P-plate drivers leave the house and you say to them, drive carefully, don't accept from them, yeah, I'll be OK."Even passengers that don't want to go into a P-plate car, resist the urge to get in the back. These drivers cannot be distracted."
"And I think being young kids they used to think they were invincible but, in a blink of an eye, your whole world can change."The government's long-term aim is a 50 per cent reduction in deaths and serious injuries by the end of the decade.
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