With Queensland experiencing a sudden increase in road fatalities, Transport Minister Mark Bailey has organised a roundtable.
Mr Bailey called the roundtable following troubling data reflecting that 2022’s road fatalities had been the highest since 2009 at 299 deaths.
Mr Bailey told The Courier Mail that speed proved to be one of the most frequent variables among the 299 fatalities.
“Speed contributed to 30 per cent of lives lost and six per cent of hospitalisations,” he said.
“This is about a 45 per cent increase in both hospitalisations and fatal crashes where speed was a factor since the start of the pandemic.”
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