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Katie Woolf spoke with NT Police Commander Matt Hollamby about National Road Safety Week · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf. Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: You are our eyes and ears in the Territory Mixed
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  Speaker 1: one oh four point.
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  Speaker 2: Nine And we do know that this week is National
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  Speaker 2: Road Safety Week. Joining us on the line to tell
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  Speaker 2: us a little bit more is Northern Territory Traffic Police
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  Speaker 2: Commander Matt Holland. Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie, and good morning to your listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Matt.
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  Speaker 1: We know that it is National Road Safety Week.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately we didn't have a good start this week in
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  Speaker 2: the territory, did we.
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  Speaker 3: No, we didn't. Sadly a person did die on our roads.
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  Speaker 3: But it does highlight the importance of road safety. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is an opportunity for us to showcase
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  Speaker 3: and highlight the importance of road safety particularly and this
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  Speaker 3: is an education and awareness tool where we can speak
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  Speaker 3: to the importance of taking care of ourselves and our
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  Speaker 3: family and other road used as.
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  Speaker 2: Whilst we're yeah, so, I mean, we know every year
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  Speaker 2: around Australia around twelve hundred people are killed, but another astonishingly,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's an astonishing figure in itself, but then
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  Speaker 2: when you look at the fact that forty four thousand
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  Speaker 2: people are seriously injured on Australian roads. It's a massive
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  Speaker 2: number and I think that a lot of the time,
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  Speaker 2: you know, very tragically we look at those fatalities, but
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  Speaker 2: your life can change in a horrible way with a
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  Speaker 2: terrible injury on the roads.
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  Speaker 3: Also, yeah, look, if you take that over a ten
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  Speaker 3: year period, that's twelve thousand people that die in Australia
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  Speaker 3: from car crashes, and that, you know, really does put
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  Speaker 3: it into a perspective. But from a territory perspective, we
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  Speaker 3: average about forty one people dying on our roads over
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  Speaker 3: the last ten years per year and five hundred people
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  Speaker 3: that are seriously injured per year. So you know, the
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  Speaker 3: fatal figures is not the end of it. There's the families,
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  Speaker 3: the friends, and the injured people and their family and
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  Speaker 3: friends as well. So it really really does affect a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people. And I think pretty much everyone knows somebody,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's a family or friend, who's died on our roads.
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  Speaker 3: And that's really really sad. Yeah, people have to live
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  Speaker 3: with that forever, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: And it is, you know, it's a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 2: There's such a massive impact sort of not just on
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  Speaker 2: that family who lose a loved one, but on friends,
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  Speaker 2: the whole community, sporting clubs. That ripple effect goes far
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  Speaker 2: and wide. Matt, What is planned for this week for
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  Speaker 2: National Road Safety Week here in the territory.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously we had a fairly large commitment to the base
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  Speaker 3: of the grass in terms of road safety. We're doing
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  Speaker 3: some intermittent operations throughout this week and then we've got
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  Speaker 3: some more activities planned for the weekend. So there will
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  Speaker 3: be random breast testing, random drug testing stations around the
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  Speaker 3: Northern Territory including Darwin and the rural areas over the
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  Speaker 3: next few and again this is this is about education
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  Speaker 3: and awareness and you know, we can't stress that enough.
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  Speaker 3: The terrence and enforcement are the last legs where you know,
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  Speaker 3: we discourage and catch people committing unlawful behaviors, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'd rather educate the community that it's in everyone's interest
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  Speaker 3: to obey the road rules.
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  Speaker 2: And another time, when I think it was when you
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  Speaker 2: and I had spoken a few weeks back, we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about the number of people who'd been picked up
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  Speaker 2: drink driving, and then the number of people who'd been
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  Speaker 2: picked up who'd been behind the wheel after taking drugs,
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  Speaker 2: and those the numbers of the drug taking and then
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  Speaker 2: driving seem to be on the rise.
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  Speaker 3: They are, Katie, And in part that's because we're testing
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  Speaker 3: more people and the Eastern Road Safety Campaign was the
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  Speaker 3: first major campaign we have run where we've detected more
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  Speaker 3: drug drivers than drink drivers. So you know it's here
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  Speaker 3: and we we're going to police it more and more
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  Speaker 3: into the future. So again it's part of this is education,
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  Speaker 3: but there is also the deterrence factor that we are
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  Speaker 3: going to do random drug testing along with our random
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  Speaker 3: breath testing.
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  Speaker 2: Commander Matt Holland be anything else we should be aware
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  Speaker 2: of today and for this week for National Road Safety Week.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I think there's just a broad message to the community.
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  Speaker 3: Remember the fatal five drive, so others survive. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you're a parent, your children will mimic your behaviors
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  Speaker 3: on the road. So if you're somebody who drinks and
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  Speaker 3: drives and speeds and plays on your mobile phone and
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  Speaker 3: doesn't we you see, well, your kids will probably do
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. So we just you know, we just
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  Speaker 3: asked that drive so others survive, including your own family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and command to Holland, Bee, we do not I
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  Speaker 2: know that obviously you're with the Darwin region, but a
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  Speaker 2: very territory story emerging over about this man rescued from
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  Speaker 2: the roof of his car after he crashed into croc
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  Speaker 2: infested waters when he lost control after attempting to avoid
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  Speaker 2: a kangaroo on the Arnham Highway.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, there's been a few interesting crashes throughout this week.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sun played a factor in another one. Sunlight
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  Speaker 3: and so yeah, it's just driving to the conditions is very,
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  Speaker 3: very important. And yeah, I just can't stress enough that
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to be one of those people that
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  Speaker 3: loses somebody because of a crash.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Northern Territory Traffic Police commanded Matt Holland be good
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  Speaker 2: to speak with you today.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 3: Always a pleasure, Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you and
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  Speaker 2: If you are after some further information as well about
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  Speaker 2: National road Safety Week, you can head to Roadsafetyweek dot
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  Speaker 2: com dot au