Data shows 2024 was the deadliest year on the roads since 2012

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Australia has recorded its worst annual road death toll result since 2012 yet not a single jurisdiction is on track to meet the national road safety strategy target of halving road deaths by 2030. The Australasian College of Road Safety is calling on politicians to make road safety a federal election priority.

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00:00We've seen that for the fourth consecutive year in a row the number of people being killed

00:07on our roads has increased.

00:10And that hasn't happened since the 1970s, since before random breath testing and mandatory

00:17seat belts.

00:19We used to be a world leader in road safety and now we're falling way behind.

00:25There are certainly differences and we have seen some small improvements in some states.

00:30South Australia and Tasmania improved in 2024 compared to 2023.

00:36However, we as a nation have signed up to a target of halving fatalities and serious

00:43injuries by 2030.

00:46And we are nowhere near meeting that target.

00:48You can't increase for four years in a row and hope to be on track.

00:53So we've really got to do something differently.

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