{"id":5511,"date":"2018-08-06T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2018-09-21T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T19:10:24","slug":"australian-states-set-to-miss-road-safety-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/australian-states-set-to-miss-road-safety-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian states set to miss road safety targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Australian states and the Northern Territory are on track to miss government road safety targets, according to the Australian Automobile Association\u2019s (AAA) quarterly <a href=\"http:\/\/cm.aaa.asn.au\/t\/i-i-budlrtl-l-j\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benchmarking of The National Road Safety Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which\u00a0tracks progress against the agreed target of reducing road deaths by at least 30 percent between 2011 and 2020, has recorded the most modest progress made since 2011. In 2017-2018 there were 1,222 deaths on Australian roads, just one fewer than 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p>In the year to June 2018, all states and the Northern Territory recorded \u201cred light warnings\u201d, meaning they are on a trajectory that makes them unlikely to meet the 2020 targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the worst result so far recorded by the AAA\u2019s benchmarking process and underscores the need for greater federal road safety oversight to help reduce deaths on the nation\u2019s roads,\u201d said AAA Chief Executive Michael Bradley. \u201cThese results reflect our current approach to road safety, which lacks transparency, consistency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritical elements such as data collection and research are not being coordinated or harmonised, and jurisdictions face no consequences for failing to deliver agreed outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report found that cyclist fatalities have increased, with\u00a045 cyclist deaths in 2017-18. The total for the previous year was 25 deaths, and the strategy\u2019s baseline (the average of 2008, 2009 and 2010) is 32.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoad trauma currently costs the national economy more than $29 billion annually and the observed lack of progress reflects Australia\u2019s uncoordinated and disorganised approach to road safety,\u201d added Bradley. \u201cThe social and human cost of these deaths and injuries is immeasurable, however the costs to the budget and the economy are well understood, which is why the AAA will continue to call on the Federal Government to reinstate federal oversight of road safety data collection and the strategy\u2019s implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Australian states and the Northern Territory are on track to miss government road safety targets, according to the Australian Automobile Association\u2019s (AAA) quarterly Benchmarking of The National Road Safety Strategy. The report, which\u00a0tracks progress against the agreed target of reducing road deaths by at least 30 percent between 2011 and 2020, has recorded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}