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Speaker 1: We know that Amy has named Darwin's top crash hot

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Speaker 1: spots and the Stuart Highway has taken out four of

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Speaker 1: the top five worst crash spots. Now joining us in

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Speaker 1: the studio right now is John Ganaine. He is the

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Speaker 1: Senior Sergeant Officer in charge of Darwin Traffic Operations. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, John.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, always good to have you on the show and

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Speaker 1: in the studio now, mate, Amy's named these top Darwen

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Speaker 1: crash hot spots the Stuart Highway taking out four of

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Speaker 1: those top five worst crash spots.

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Speaker 3: Is it really a surprise to police.

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Speaker 4: It's not surprising at all, Katie. And all these Stuart

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Speaker 4: Highway spots are all within the greater Darwin area. It's

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Speaker 4: a bit disappointing rather than surprising. Number one on the

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Speaker 4: list of the Stuart Highway cool a linger now that

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Speaker 4: has some of the best built and best maintained roads

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Speaker 4: from their right up through where the Highway turns into

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Speaker 4: Tiger Brewn and drive going into town at some of

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Speaker 4: the best roads that we have in the Northern territory.

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Speaker 4: And yet it's still ranks right at the top for

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Speaker 4: motor vehicle accidents and significant injuries. And I would suggest

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Speaker 4: there's a number of reasons for that. Most likely is

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Speaker 4: that you have a massive amount of different types of

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Speaker 4: vehicles all trying to use the same bit of road

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Speaker 4: at the same time. And that's anything from your HOINDI

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Speaker 4: gets as vespers all that sort of thing, right up

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Speaker 4: to road trains and all that sort of stuff. If

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Speaker 4: you combine that with what is basically in attention and

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Speaker 4: human error, and make no mistake that's what it is,

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Speaker 4: then it's really unsurprising that we see so many Bengals

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Speaker 4: around that part of town.

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Speaker 1: Well, and then we also saw that nose to tail

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Speaker 1: failure to give way and car park dings equally the

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Speaker 1: most common type of crash. I'm not surprised about the

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Speaker 1: car park.

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Speaker 2: One, no.

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Speaker 4: I think when they learn to drive, it would be

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Speaker 4: helpful if part of the driving lessons were to navigate

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Speaker 4: some of the car parks in and around town, and

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Speaker 4: they include underground car parks. I live very close to

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Speaker 4: the High Biscus Shopping Center car park, and anyone who's

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Speaker 4: tried to park in there anytime from midday to six

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Speaker 4: o'clock in the afternoon on will know it's a bit

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Speaker 4: of an effort. So if you're learn to drive, part

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Speaker 4: of that should be an integral part of the process

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Speaker 4: because we continually find that people who cannot judge angles,

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Speaker 4: and it's basic geometry and knowing how large your car is,

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Speaker 4: knowing how large the car park is, identifying a car park,

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Speaker 4: work your way into it. It should be a simple process,

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Speaker 4: but na, and it comes to police attention quite a

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Speaker 4: bit when people get a bit upset with each other

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Speaker 4: when really the problem is their inherent failure to be

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Speaker 4: able to operate a made vehicle.

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Speaker 3: So really you've got to learn to park.

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Speaker 1: Probably I remember being like an eighteen year old with

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Speaker 1: my oldness and bluebird trying to park in the car

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Speaker 1: park no power steering, thinking geez, this is not an

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Speaker 1: easy task.

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Speaker 4: Day one, day one for me, when I got my

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Speaker 4: peoplates back of the day Day one, I scraped my

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Speaker 4: father's mute right up against the side of somebody else's

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Speaker 4: car and that was the end of that. And after that,

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Speaker 4: after I finished being dealt with by my father, then

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Speaker 4: I made it my business to become an expert parking.

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Speaker 2: Here we are.

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Speaker 1: Set you on the path to being the officer in

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Speaker 1: charge of dah and Traffic operations.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it went the hard way and no question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's so true.

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Speaker 1: You know you've got it like you do sort of

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Speaker 1: need to learn and need to learn to do it properly,

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Speaker 1: and you know, having a bit of a laugh about

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Speaker 1: some of those different experiences that we've gone through.

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Speaker 3: But you know the reality is.

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Speaker 1: Even yesterday, you know, in that twenty four hours, there

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Speaker 1: was quite a few sort of incidents on the road.

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Speaker 1: I know, I was actually listening to Dannyell, my producer's

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Speaker 1: news in the afternoon. She was talking about these statistics

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Speaker 1: and we drove past that that incident that was on

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Speaker 1: the Stuart Highway just there near parap where it seemed

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Speaker 1: as though a few vehicles had rear ended each other. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: No, it's detail Katie in traditional manner right in the

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Speaker 4: spot which Amy has listed as number two on the

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Speaker 4: hit list. And again that's no surprise, and nobody can

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Speaker 4: say that it's nobody's fault because if you are not

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Speaker 4: paying attention, you know you're in heavy traffic or heavy

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Speaker 4: what passes for Darwin, you know you're in heavy traffic.

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Speaker 4: You know you should be giving the vehicle in front

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Speaker 4: of you sufficient space, So you can't really say, oh,

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Speaker 4: how could this have happened when you weren't paying sufficient

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Speaker 4: attention and you end up ramming the car in front

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Speaker 4: of you?

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Speaker 3: Well, what about then?

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Speaker 1: I know that there was actually a more serious incident

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Speaker 1: I think at Bellamack as well this time.

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Speaker 3: I believe a couple of people ended up hospitalized.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. That was in chung La Present and Bellamack.

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Speaker 4: That was about half past eight last night.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Now three cars were involved in that.

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Speaker 4: Of those two eagles won't be being driven around by

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Speaker 4: their owners anymore at all. Two drivers and a passenger actually,

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Speaker 4: so three people were conveyed to the Royal Dalen Hospital

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Speaker 4: as a result of that. Fortunately, and it is luck

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Speaker 4: more than good management that none of those three people

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Speaker 4: have life threatening injuries.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well it is. It does sound as though that's

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Speaker 3: the case. Luck more than anything.

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Speaker 1: Hey, And Wednesday is obviously the most common day, and

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Speaker 1: in the afternoons between two, well between one and four

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Speaker 1: point thirty pm. But a few people drunk driving last

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Speaker 1: night as well, wasn't there.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's the usual array of drunk drivers who continually

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Speaker 4: endanger the lives.

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Speaker 2: Of other people on their roads.

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Speaker 4: And I know I say this to all sorts of

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Speaker 4: people in different forums, but it is out and out selfishness.

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Speaker 4: When you get behind the wheel of a motive vehicle

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Speaker 4: like it, you enter into a contract with everyone else

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Speaker 4: on the road around you, and that contract is to

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Speaker 4: keep each other safe. And if you're deliberately making a

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Speaker 4: choice to not do that, then you're not going to

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Speaker 4: get any sympathy from us, regardless of the circumstances.

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Speaker 1: John Ganaine, anything else we should be aware of on

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Speaker 1: the roads at this point in time. I know there

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Speaker 1: is well, there's meant to be a bit of rain about.

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Speaker 1: We're all hoping for it. It is a reminder as

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Speaker 1: well to make sure that you leave enough distance between

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Speaker 1: you and the vehicle in front of you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: At Again, I can't emphasize enough the degree of key

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Speaker 4: you need to take on the roads. Again, this is

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Speaker 4: a seasonal thing. The police say this every year, and

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Speaker 4: every year it seems to fall on deaf years. But

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Speaker 4: if when you're driving your car, if you drive as

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Speaker 4: though your own children are in the cars around you,

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Speaker 4: to the sides, to the front and the rear, you

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Speaker 4: will never go wrong. Take basic precautions and you will

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Speaker 4: get there in one piece.

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Speaker 1: Well, John Ganain, the senior sergeant to Officer in charge

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Speaker 1: of Darh and Traffic operations.

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Speaker 3: We always appreciate your time. Thanks very much for coming in.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Godie.

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Speaker 3: As always, we'll talk to you again very soon