Push for tougher speeding fines - September 2013
Road safety experts recommend higher speeding fines and the State Government will consider making changes in a penalties review.
Road Safety Council chairman Murray Lampard said the council believed penalties should be increased for many serious breaches of road rules including speeding. He said other States had much higher penalties and were a real deterrent for speeding.
The council is also pushing for a trial of point-to-point speed cameras, which measure speed over longer distances.
Read more: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/18787506/push-for-tougher-speeding-fines/
WA road toll 50 above average - August 2013
Back in 1990, WA held the best road safety record of any state, but sadly now has the worst in the nation. Figures released by the RAC show Australia's overall road death rate declined from 9.5 fatalities per 100,000 people in 2000 to 5.7 last year.
WA has fallen well behind the national rate since 2006, and last year 186 people died in crashes, a fatality rate of 7.7.
If WA's fatality rate last year was the same as the national average, there would have been about 135 deaths.
The RAC has campaigned strongly to the State and Federal governments about road safety issues, with a focus on driver inattention as a major cause of crashes.
Read more here: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/18644288/wa-road-toll-50-above-average/
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