Transport Minister Barnaby Joyce has been urged to overhaul the government's planned road toll strategy for the next decade, as motoring and health experts warn it is set to fail.
COVID lockdowns have brought scenes of empty motorways and desolate streets but road deaths actually rose this year.The sector warns the road toll will not improve unless states are forced to improve their dataThere were 1,126 people who died on Australia's roads in the past 12 months, a 1.4 per cent increase on the year before.
One of the biggest issues, according to the country's peak motoring body the Australian Automobile Association , is a "shambolic" approach to collecting information on road deaths, which remains patchy and often missing details. "This is done daily — and yet we can't tell you how many people are seriously injured in car crashes. There is no national dataset."
Mr Bradley said the upcoming plan is set to repeat the same mistakes of the last decade unless new rules are introduced to force states to improve their data collection.
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