Monday, September 13, 2004

REVELATION, LISTEN TO YOUR LIFE, THE RIGHT PATH WILL REVEAL ITSELF.


A SHOCKING car accident that killed four people in Perth yesterday has triggered calls for a night curfew for young drivers to prevent senseless deaths.Two adults and two teenagers died, and another teenager was critically injured, when a car driven by a P-plater collided with a van in the early hours of yesterday morning in the outer suburbs.
In a tragic turn of events, the father of two of the teenage victims stumbled across the accident when he went to look for his daughters who had not answered their mobile phones.
Road safety groups have called for an urgent review of legislation governing young drivers and asked state and federal governments to adopt curfews.
"We just can't allow this carnage to continue," West Australian Road Safety Council chairman Grant Dorrington said.

"Something has to be done nationally to stop this. We've had bad smashes in Victoria and Adelaide. Some tough decisions have to be made."
Just after midnight yesterday, a Mitsubishi Lancer with four young people on board drove on to the soft shoulder of the Reid Highway in Beechboro.
Police said the 17-year-old female driver had over-corrected and swung into the path of an oncoming Volkswagen Kombi van.
In the Lancer, the 17-year-old driver died, as did a 16-year-old female passenger and a 21-year-old male passenger. The driver's 15-year-old sister was critically injured.
A 42-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen died. Her 46-year-old husband was undergoing surgery yesterday on leg injuries.
The father of the sisters drove to the crash scene when he could not contact his daughters by phone. He was by his 15-year-old daughter's side in a Perth hospital last night.
Mr Dorrington said inexperienced drivers should not have multiple passengers late at night.
He said governments should consider banning young people from driving after 10pm or introduce rules limiting the number of passengers. "They could legislate for one person, the driver and no one else," he said.
In a separate incident yesterday morning, a 17-year-old and 19-year-old died in a crash near Shepparton, Victoria.
The two-car collision, which left another teenager in a critical condition and five other people injured, also involved young drivers travelling at night.
In Victoria in June a head-on crash killed five people after a 17-year-old learner driver collided with a truck on the Midland highway, north of Melbourne.
The day after the accident, a federal parliamentary committee into road safety released a report calling for greater restrictions on learner drivers.
In South Australia in June, police called for restriction on young drivers' use of high powered cars after a series of fatalities.
Research conducted at the University of Western Australia last year found that 25 per cent of crashes involving P-platers occurred between 10pm and 6am.
The study recommended night curfews for the first six months of driving.

New Zealand has a curfew and its just incredible how well its worked. So many young lives saved because of it, other countries need to take note.

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