Road safety
Australia Set Out to Halve Road Deaths by 2030. They're Rising Instead — and Half the Increase Rides a Motorcycle.
The National Road Safety Strategy promised a 50% cut in the road toll off a 1,139-a-year baseline. The year to June 2026 recorded 1,325 deaths — up 16%, five straight years of increases, and the most in a calendar year since 2010. Motorcyclists are close to half of the increase. And it is not happening on the high-speed country roads the strategy was written for.
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