Drink Driving
Two Of The Three Drink-Drivers Were Involved In Serious Single-Vehicle Collisions.
Three drink-drivers were picked up by south-west police at the weekend – two were after being involved in serious single-vehicle collisions.
Compulsory blood alcohol testing of drivers and passengers admitted to Victorian hospitals after a road accident commenced in 1974.
Random breath testing of drivers was first introduced in Victoria in 1976, all other States and Territories followed, South Australia (1981), New South Wales (1982), Tasmania (1983) and Queensland and Western Australia (1988).
In Victoria in 1980 82,000 random breath tests were done of Victorian drivers – vehicle occupant fatalities decreased from 629 in 1977 to 389 in 1980.
Basil S Hetzel, Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine, Monash University wrote in his 2005 Memoirs: ‘The success of Random Breath Testing in Australia provides an important model for public learning, leading to public health intervention.’
Deaths of all road users in 1989, 16.7 per 100,000 population compared with 30.4 in 1970.
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Three drink-drivers were picked up by south-west police at the weekend – two were after being involved in serious single-vehicle collisions.
Police are investigating whether speed and or alcohol were contributing factors in two vehicles being written-off during a collision on Friday night.
DRINK-DRIVERS were responsible for more than half of the region’s fatal crashes in what was a heart-breaking 2022 for the south-west, a police sergeant says.
The New South Wales road death toll has risen from 2021’s historic low to 288 people in 2022, compared to 275 the year before.
A middle-aged drunk woman on her way to buy chickens has been found slumped over a car steering wheel beside the Princes Highway at almost three times the alcohol limit.
The 34-year-old man recorded a blood alcohol reading of .291 following the collision on Raglan Parade in November last year.