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

Talking further on National Road Safety Week starting today &ndash; a time surely to reflect on the current poor driving standard in this state, The campaign is national however we still don&rsquo;t have a set of national road rules &ndash; 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&rsquo; belief that after Sarah Frazer&rsquo;s tragic death in 2012 it&rsquo;s taken Victoria 13 years to implement a road rule which surely should have been national road rule from Day 1. I&rsquo;m David Berthon

A weekly show with all the latest information and news in the motoring industry. Hosted by 2GB's very own motoring corespondent David Berthon. 

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A weekly show with all the latest information and news in the motoring industry. Hosted by 2GB's very own motoring corespondent David Berthon.&nbsp;
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Motor Torque with David Berthon

A weekly show with all the latest information and news in the motoring industry. Hosted by 2GB's very own motoring corespondent David Berthon. 

For more engaging content visit the 2GB website, or listen live to 2GB 873 

A weekly show with all the latest information and news in the motoring industry. Hosted by 2GB's very own motoring corespondent David Berthon.&nbsp;
For more engaging content visit the 2GB website, or listen live to 2GB 873&nbsp;

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