Everyone would agree that 100 deaths on our roads so far this year is too many.
And no one would agree more than the grieving families, partners, parents, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins.
Wide Bay Burnett lost 14 people in the first four months.
Last week was National Road Safety Week where in the Gympie region alone we lost two people – a 48 year old man from Goomeri and a 28 year old man from Gympie.
That Gympie man was later revealed to be Andrew Kelly, a first-time father-to-be, who leaves behind his pregnant girlfriend and a large, grieving family.
The Fatal Five – driving drunk or on drugs, distracted, tired, too fast, or without a seatbelt – is thought to have played a role in all these fatalities.
There’s no excuse to flout the rules, and it’s not always the rule-breaker who pays the price.
