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Motorist Placed On Good Behaviour Bond After Causing 2021 Rollover Which Killed Her Dog.
A woman is lucky to be alive after a “catastrophic” rollover two years ago that killed her dog and saw her ejected through the sun roof.
Mandatory wearing of seat belts was enforced in Victoria on January 1, 1971 – the first State or Territory in Australia to do this.
The number of driver and passenger deaths decreased in Victoria by 125 that year.
By 1973, legislation had been passed in all other Australian States and Territories.
The number of driver and passenger deaths in Australia decreased by 360 in 1973 compared with 1970.
“This road trauma doesn’t have to happen… some is accidental, but the sort we see so often come from making bad choices,
”Royal Melbourne Hospital trauma surgeon Dr Rose Shakerian told the ‘Herald Sun’, “failure to wear seat belts, speeding and using mobile phones are reported by the treated road trauma drivers and passengers regularly”.
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A woman is lucky to be alive after a “catastrophic” rollover two years ago that killed her dog and saw her ejected through the sun roof.
A truck driver has faced court charged with 46 offences in relation to a crash that left dozens of students and staff in hospital last year.
Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following a quadruple fatality in Pine Lodge early this month.
Emergency services and members of the public were faced with a “devastating and confronting” scene at Pine Lodge where four people were killed after three of them were ejected from a car on Wednesday.
“The most seriously injured student, who suffered a severe leg injury, has already been through three surgeries at the Royal Children’s Hospital with more to come.”
Ballarat has shown its true colours in the face of the massive trauma following a Western Freeway bus crash that hospitalised dozens of Loreto College