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Senior Sergeant Dave Tierney inspects one of the wrecks hauled away after the recent spate of crashes on South Burnett roads … no, this wasn’t a fatal but it could well have been – a man and woman were transported to hospital after the single-vehicle rollover on the Chinchilla-Wondai Road earlier this month<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 29, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s just pure luck that more people haven’t died on South Burnett roads over the past fortnight.<\/p>\n

That’s the assessment of Kingaroy Police officer-in-charge Senior Sergeant Dave Tierney when he considers the 13 crashes – not “accidents” – which have occurred locally recently.<\/p>\n

Sadly, two of these incidents were fatal: a 30-year-old Ipswich man died at Goomeri and a 72-year-old Glan Devon woman was killed at Nanango.<\/p>\n

However, Snr Sgt Tierney said any of the other crashes which occurred on our highways and back roads could have had the same tragic result.<\/p>\n

And only one involved a second vehicle … the rest were all single vehicles rolling or smashing into trees.<\/p>\n

So what’s behind this sudden spate of single-vehicle crashes?<\/p>\n

“It’s all just a matter of distraction; people are just not paying attention,” Snr Sgt Tierney said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the crashes involved someone swerving to avoid an animal on the road; another may have involved a pet inside the vehicle but the result is always the same … vehicles running off the road.<\/p>\n

Snr Sgt Tierney doesn’t believe it has anything to do with the school holidays – only the Goomeri crash had children in the car – and most involved South Burnett residents.<\/p>\n

And he doesn’t blame the condition of the roads; he believes people simply aren’t “driving” any more.<\/p>\n

“People are ‘sitting in a lounge chair’ instead of driving,” he said.<\/p>\n

They aren’t paying close attention to their surroundings, the road conditions or their vehicle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“They suddenly become alert to something, they over-correct, their vehicle loses its centre of balance and it rolls,” he said.<\/p>\n

“People aren’t driving to the road conditions.<\/p>\n

“Cars have become too easy to drive.<\/p>\n

“They get too relaxed behind the wheel. When they need to react, it’s too late …”<\/p>\n

Snr Sgt Tierney said complacency was also to blame.<\/p>\n

Too many people thought crashes just involved “old people” or “young people who drive like hoons”.<\/p>\n

“They think it’s not going to happen to me,” he said.<\/p>\n

Snr Sgt Tierney urged drivers to always “respect themselves, respect other road users and respect your passengers”.<\/p>\n

“It’s not worth the risk. In any one of these crashes someone could have been killed. It has been just pure luck.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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