Page 410 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 19 February 2019
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there are no recommendations made by the standing committee that were not agreed by the government.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Road safety report card
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister assisting the Chief Minister on Advanced Technology and Space Industries) (3.13): Pursuant to standing order 211, I move:
That the Assembly take note of the following paper:
ACT Road Safety Strategy 2011-2020—Road Safety Report Card 2019.
MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong—Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Minister for Corrections and Justice Health, Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety and Minister for Mental Health) (3.14): The 2019 ACT road safety report card is intended to provide information to the public on ACT government responses to road safety, including progress of the implementation of the national and jurisdictional road safety strategies. It includes a summary of the ACT government’s key road safety achievements over the 2018 calendar year, an update of the implementation status of our road safety commitments, and statistical reporting against national road safety performance indicators. Commitments made by the ACT government on road safety are summarised in the appendices of the report card.
The report monitors progress against recommendations and action items under the road safety action plan 2016-20, the Legislative Assembly inquiry into vulnerable road users, the ACT Auditor-General’s audit report on speed cameras and the ACT road safety camera strategy. A total of 93 commitments were made by this government in the four areas I just mentioned; 63 of these commitments are complete and another 18 are either well advanced or progressing well.
From this year the report card will also include information about the ACT road safety education strategy published in May 2018. The education strategy is an eight-year plan for delivery of road safety education across all ages, with clear goals and 31 action items set to improve the knowledge and behaviours of all road users. As at December 2018 five of these items had already been completed.
The implementation of these recommendations due to the government’s commitment to road safety has helped us achieve a reduction in fatalities on ACT roads. In 2017 the number of deaths resulting from road crashes decreased by over 50 per cent from 11 to five, and the number of deaths per 10,000 registered vehicles in 2017 decreased by 6.5 per cent when compared to 2016.
I will briefly highlight some of the key road safety achievements for 2018 that demonstrate our commitment to maintaining a lower number of fatalities per capita than the national average, with a target of zero road deaths and serious injuries. In
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