Tuggeranong parkway

Police speak on the recent crashes on Tuggeranong Parkway and their causes.

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00:00Look, the main causes of these type of collisions, quite frankly, are inattention.

00:13Not leaving a sufficient amount of space between your car and the vehicle in front.

00:17Not being considerate.

00:18Not thinking about what your actions and how your actions will impact other road users.

00:24Very recently we responded to a, I believe it was a six car collision on the Tuggeranong

00:29Parkway.

00:30Whilst police and other emergency services were at that location, other motorists that

00:35decided to pay an elevated amount of attention to that collision failed to observe cars in

00:40front of them slowing down and as a result a number of other multi-vehicle collisions

00:44resulted.

00:49The Tuggeranong Parkway is a major arterial road linking the south of Canberra to the

00:54north of Canberra and into the city.

00:57It does carry a significant amount of traffic at any given time of the day.

01:03It doesn't necessarily need to be a peak hour which is routinely between 7.30 and 9.30 in

01:08the morning or from about 3.30 to 6.30 of an evening.

01:12There is a lot of traffic.

01:13People just need to remain patient.

01:15An extra couple of minutes in your car to get home is way better than spending an hour

01:19and a half on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck.