Fewer fatalities, drink-driving charges
The Canberra Times Friday 31st December, 2010
THE NSW road toll is shaping up as the second lowest since the introduction of random breath testing 28 years ago. Yesterday afternoon the toll was 419, well above the record low of 374 in 2008, lower than the 2007 total, 435 - and a huge drop from the 1970s average of 1265. For the past decade, the annual average has been 501. NSW Police said Operation Safe Arrival, the annual holiday traffic campaign, was partly responsible for the drop. Since Christmas Eve, there have been three fatalities, 10 fewer than for the same period last year. This may increase to four, and the toll to 420, when police confirm the fate of a petrol tanker driver missing after his vehicle rolled and caught fire at Cumbalum, 10 kilometres north of Ballina, around midday yesterday, closing the Pacific Highway for se...
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