Talking further on National Road Safety Week starting today – a time surely to reflect on the current poor driving standard in this state, The campaign is national however we still don’t have a set of national road rules – individual states still singing from a different hymn book. National Road Safety Week is the work of Peter Frazer who daughter Sarah was tragically killed by a truck driver in a totally avoidable crash on the Hume Highway at Mittagong in Feb 2012 when her car broke down. Tow truck driver Geoffrey Clark and Sarah were loading her car when they were killed by the passing truck. Soon after N.S.W. expanded the road rule requiring drivers to slow down to 40km/h for emergency responders to also include tow truck and roadside assistance workers. Amazingly, Victoria only announced this week that from July 1 the current road rule requiring drivers and motorcycle riders to slow down to 40km/h for police, fire, and ambulance would be expanded – now including tow trucks, roadside assistance and incident response vehicles displaying flashing lights. It beggars’ belief that after Sarah Frazer’s tragic death in 2012 it’s taken Victoria 13 years to implement a road rule which surely should have been national road rule from Day 1. I’m David Berthon

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