Page 2683 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 26 September 2007
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Mr Pratt: On a point of order, which relates to relevance, Mr Speaker. The question was: where is the crash data, not where is the speed data? We know about the speed data. The question is: where is the crash data to support the installation of those fixed cameras?
MR SPEAKER: Come to the subject matter of the supplementary question.
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Speaker, Mr Pratt is talking about the placement of these things, and I am giving him the rationale, like he asked. Now, Mr Pratt says he knows all about those very significantly high speeds. I do not see how he could possibly know about them—because I have only just received the information myself—unless he is one of the people doing 200 kilometres an hour! It could be, old Speedy Gonzales over there.
MR SPEAKER: Just come to the subject matter, Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Speaker, the crash data for the Tuggeranong Parkway, Hindmarsh Drive to the Cotter Road—
Mr Seselja: I don’t think you want to be throwing stones in that area, John. Don’t be throwing stones about driving behaviour.
MR HARGREAVES: If Mr Seselja would be quiet, maybe Mr Pratt can hear this; he has asked for it. On the Tuggeranong Parkway, Hindmarsh Drive to the Cotter Road, which is a camera site, for the period January 2001 to 2006, there was one fatal crash; injury crashes, there were seven; property damage, 130; total crashes, 138. The Tuggeranong Parkway, for the entire length between Glenloch Interchange and Sulwood Drive, there was one fatal crash; 26 crashes involving injury; 515 property damage crashes; total number of crashes, 542.
Mr Pratt: How many years?
MR HARGREAVES: I have already answered that question. Mr Pratt is suffering from a memory loss. Federal Highway, Antill Street to Majura Road and the intersection at the Antill Street roundabout—which is where I referred to earlier—there have been no fatal crashes; one injury crash; 66 property damage crashes; total, 67. The Federal Highway, the entire length between the Barton Highway and the New South Wales border; no fatal crashes; seven injury crashes; 247 crashes involving property damage; total crashes, 254. For the benefit of Mr Pratt’s rather appalling lack of memory, these are examples of the crash figures for the period 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2006.
Mr Speaker, when you couple the crash damage with the volume of vehicles going through it and the maximum speeds going through it and the mean speeds going through it, you can see that those areas there need a change in driver behaviour. That is why those particular sites were chosen.
Mr Smyth: A point of order, Mr Speaker: under standing order 213, would the minister please table that document he was just reading from?
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