{"id":242428,"date":"2019-08-23T22:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=242428"},"modified":"2020-07-18T13:08:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T03:08:50","slug":"make-safety-your-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/08\/23\/make-safety-your-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Safety Your Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242431\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823roadsafety.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-242431\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823roadsafety.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823roadsafety.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823roadsafety-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190823roadsafety-285x177.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Constable Jessica Leech and Senior Constable Todd Armstrong don&#8217;t want to meet you by accident on South Burnett roads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>August 23, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Queensland Road Safety Week is kicking off on Monday with plenty of safety slogans about to hit the media &#8230; but Kingaroy Police have a simple message: &#8220;Make safety your priority&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Office-in-charge of Kingaroy Police, Senior Sergeant Dave Tierney, pleaded for drivers not to just think about themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be selfish. You&#8217;re not just driving for yourself. You&#8217;re driving for the other people on the road as well as the other occupants in your car,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be courteous. Be patient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It won&#8217;t matter if it takes a few more minutes to get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snr Sgt Tierney shared some sobering statistics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2018, 245 people died on Queensland roads; 65 per cent of these deaths occurred on rural roads and 75 per cent were male.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the 155 deaths on rural roads, 50 per cent were single-vehicle rollovers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In half of the crashes, only the driver died.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Motorcycle riders made up 17 per cent of deaths. The remaining 33 per cent were either passengers or pedestrians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A quarter of the road deaths occurred in the Southern Region, the police area which includes the South Burnett.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The majority of these crashes were either drug or alcohol-related while 25 per cent were caused by fatigue; 80 per cent occurred on rural roads and 70 per cent of fatalities were men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Snr Sgt Tierney said the number of fatal crashes across Queensland was flattening but the number of serious incidents &#8211; in which a person was seriously injured and often disabled for life &#8211; was growing exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>These injury crashes were not only disastrous for the person concerned and their families, it also put enormous pressure on other services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The State Government has launched a StreetSmarts campaign in conjunction with Road Safety Week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each day will have a different focus: Drivers, Pedestrians, Heavy Vehicles, Bicycles and Motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>There is more information available on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/streetsmarts.initiatives.qld.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StreetSmarts website<\/a><\/strong> as well as information about various <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/streetsmarts.initiatives.qld.gov.au\/speeding\/drive-smarter-not-faster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neuroscience experiments<\/a><\/strong> drivers can do to stop speeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland Road Safety Week is kicking off on Monday with plenty of safety slogans about to hit the media &#8230; but Kingaroy Police have a simple message: &#8220;Make safety, your priority&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":242431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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