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Speaker 1: We know that it is very wet out there. Joining

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Speaker 1: us on the line right now, Senior Sergeant Craig Gillis

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Speaker 1: from the Northern Territory Traffic Police Operations Team. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Craig.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Canny.

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Speaker 1: How are you not too bad mate? It's certainly looking

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Speaker 1: pretty wet and wild out there. How things on our roads?

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Speaker 2: Oh, oh, that's it. I did expect with the roads

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Speaker 2: at the moment. I just had a quick look. Yes,

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Speaker 2: So we had fifteen crashes just in the Darwin area

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Speaker 2: and obviously that's quite a bit and there's a couple

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Speaker 2: of serious ones included in that. So that's what I'd

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Speaker 2: like to have a chat about today. It's a bit

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Speaker 2: of a preventative driving measures for people driving in this

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Speaker 2: sort of weather.

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Speaker 1: So Craig, did you say fifteen crashes yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was this here in the twenty four hour

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Speaker 2: period for yesterday. That obviously included the rollover near the

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Speaker 2: dump on VANDL and Drive and the traffic lights they

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Speaker 2: got to talk out near TROI Road.

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Speaker 1: Goodness me and we all know that this time of

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Speaker 1: the year, very often we have these heavy downpaurses. Weather

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Speaker 1: being what the factor was yesterday with those with those crashes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with the majority of them, I tay would be

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Speaker 2: the weather. One of them was a combination of the weather,

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Speaker 2: some speed, and unfortunately one of the drivers appears to

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Speaker 2: be impaired by alcohol, and obviously that's never a good mix. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And I've said the best thing is because I noticed

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Speaker 2: myself when I was driving the work days same morning,

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Speaker 2: people not turn their headlights on. I had a little

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Speaker 2: gray carbell out in front of me. I couldn't see

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Speaker 2: it for the life of me. But for some reason

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Speaker 2: they people don't like to have their headlights on. And

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Speaker 2: there's some sort of implement weather at the moment which

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Speaker 2: has them very difficult to see obviously.

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. I mean it looks like it's absolutely bucketing

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Speaker 1: down outside the studio here this morning and pretty dark

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Speaker 1: out there. I think everybody needs to make sure that

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Speaker 1: they have got their lights on. What are other things

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Speaker 1: that we can do to really try to take care

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Speaker 1: when the weather is like this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the main things, so those obviously, because the roads

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Speaker 2: are a little bit sleeper, you want to increase the

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Speaker 2: distance between you and the vehicle in front of you,

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Speaker 2: and in you know, whether a lot. We've got the

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Speaker 2: moment ideally our four second gap, and that's quite easy

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Speaker 2: to calculate, you know, to see the car in front

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Speaker 2: of you, go past the lamp post or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Just count yourself for four seconds and let's the sort

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Speaker 2: of gap you need in between, because that allows for

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Speaker 2: your reaction time obviously, and the time for the vehicle

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Speaker 2: to slow down. And also you just want people to

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Speaker 2: slow down and also make sure their vehicles are roadworthy

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Speaker 2: because obviously with all the water on the road, you

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Speaker 2: don't want your vehicle aquaplaning because you've got low tread

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Speaker 2: on your vehicle, and simple thing like having a decent

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Speaker 2: wind screen worker so you can actually seed you and

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Speaker 2: the sort of deluges that we're getting at the moment.

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Speaker 1: And Craig, I know, obviously Monday is the first day

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Speaker 1: back at school for a lot of our kids. Always

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Speaker 1: a timely reminder as well for people to make sure

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Speaker 1: that they adhere to those school zones.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly we're actually doing a territory wide campaign as

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Speaker 2: we do every time the back to school sort of

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Speaker 2: starts up, because you've got to look after the children,

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Speaker 2: you know, they're the vulnerable road users, some of them

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Speaker 2: first time going to school and at the young age

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Speaker 2: that don't have traffic sense, they just got to be

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Speaker 2: aware that they could run out one between cars at

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Speaker 2: any any stage. And obviously the limits forty, but there's

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Speaker 2: nothing wrong with going ten k flower or something like that,

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Speaker 2: because school zones aren't overly long, and it's not going

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Speaker 2: to impact on the time it's going to take you

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Speaker 2: to complete your journey to wherever you're going. And just

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Speaker 2: be wary of children.

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Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree, And I know we've got

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Speaker 1: some kids in the car listening today. You know, a

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Speaker 1: good reminder for them as well, make sure you use

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Speaker 1: those those pedestrian crossings, the zebra crossings. But certainly for

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Speaker 1: all of us that are driving around those school zones,

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Speaker 1: we've got to remember that kids just sometimes don't think

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Speaker 1: about road safety in the same way that we do

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Speaker 1: as adults. So we've got to make sure we take care. No,

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Speaker 1: that's the.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, because obviously we just want to minimize we'll get

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Speaker 2: down to zero any any instance involving children and age.

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people trust their children to

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Speaker 2: ride their bikes to school or to walk to school

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Speaker 2: when they wake to a certain age, and you just

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Speaker 2: gotta be where that sometimes they might not be thinking

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Speaker 2: that they may be distracted by something shiny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Well, seeing Sergeant Craig gill Us. Anything

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Speaker 1: else we should know about this morning.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah at the moment. Well, we've got a five

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Speaker 2: week traffic campaign called Operation Jason, where you'll see us

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Speaker 2: out in force doing random drug and alcohol testing because unfortunate,

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Speaker 2: that obviously is still a problem out there. So even

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Speaker 2: in this where they don't think it's raining, the police

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Speaker 2: won't be out there doing testing because we will be

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Speaker 2: and obviously we've got definitely got a zero approach to

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Speaker 2: that sort of offending and hopefully we don't catch anybody.

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Speaker 2: That'd be our goal, but unfortunately we still are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't that be wonderful if you guys could go

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Speaker 1: out there and do those campaigns and nobody actually got caught,

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Speaker 1: that be a great thing, but unfortunately it never seems

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Speaker 1: to be the case.

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Speaker 2: No, that's exactly it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh Craig, good to talk to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time, no worries.

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Speaker 2: Well you have a great day you.

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Speaker 1: Too, mate, Thank you. That is Northern Territory Traffic Police

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Speaker 1: Operations Team, Senior Sergeant Craig Gillisey just giving us a

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Speaker 1: bit of an update on, you know, making sure that

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Speaker 1: we stay safe on the roads, making sure that we

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Speaker 1: certainly stay safe on Monday when the majority of our

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Speaker 1: territory school kids go back as well