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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Traffic Police, Sergeant Tiny Bennett get a tiny.

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Speaker 2: Good mine and Katie La.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, well, now, it's been quite a terrible week,

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Speaker 1: I guess you'd have to say on the Northern Territories roads,

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Speaker 1: hasn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's been absolutely disgusting out there, two simple matters which

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Speaker 2: have caused people to lose their loved ones. It's beyond comprehensive.

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Speaker 1: It really is. And I know that there is detail

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Speaker 1: that obviously we can't go into. But we have seen

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Speaker 1: a fatality obviously at Nucki Lagoon. We've also seen a

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Speaker 1: person hit at the Narrows some you know, in a

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Speaker 1: lot of cases, some of these things seem like they

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Speaker 1: could be really avoidable.

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Speaker 2: Oh definitely. The anti police are always pushing the same message.

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Speaker 2: Watch where you're going, drive to the conditions, minimalize your

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Speaker 2: distractions while driving, no drugs, no alcohol behind the wheel,

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Speaker 2: and then hopefully everyone will get home safe and well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Tony, I know myself, I mentioned this earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week. I've had a couple of situations over

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Speaker 1: the last sort of last week or so where there's

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Speaker 1: been people on the road. In one situation on Friday

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Speaker 1: morning last week, there was a lady sitting on the

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Speaker 1: road on the Stuart Highway who was having an argument

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Speaker 1: with a family member or with her partner. We'd ended

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Speaker 1: up calling the police. I know that. You know, these

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Speaker 1: aren't sort of isolated. You can have situations where people

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Speaker 1: are on the road when they shouldn't be, and I

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Speaker 1: guess the advice for drivers always is to just be

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Speaker 1: as cautious as possible.

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Speaker 2: Almost definitely. The population in the territory is varied from

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Speaker 2: athleticity right through the social whatever. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: different people out there and for different reasons they some

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Speaker 2: do go stand on the road. We know that as locals,

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Speaker 2: we know to take care aund certain areas, but also

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Speaker 2: the anti police are working with DIPPLE and other groups

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Speaker 2: to try and minimalize the effect of people being able

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Speaker 2: to get onto the road.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that's a good idea. Look, there's

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Speaker 1: also you mentioned that we have to drive to conditions,

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Speaker 1: and we know that as the rain sort of arrives,

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Speaker 1: and we have had a couple of dry days, but

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Speaker 1: as the rain arrives or actually out in the rural

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Speaker 1: area yesterday, I think there's quite a bit of wet

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Speaker 1: weather around. But it's just that reminder as well to

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Speaker 1: make sure you've got your lights or make sure you

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Speaker 1: get leave distance between you and the car in front

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Speaker 1: of you.

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Speaker 2: Definitely the best thing about being on the road is

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Speaker 2: that you can turn your lights on. I prefer people

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Speaker 2: to be seen. Vehicles with lights on, doesn't matter what

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Speaker 2: time of day it is are seen so much clearer

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Speaker 2: than people without their lights on. So motorbikes all have

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Speaker 2: their lights hard wide. Why can't we turn our car

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Speaker 2: lights onto? It's not going to blow your bulb too quickly.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've got a message from one of our listeners.

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Speaker 1: This one's from Allen that says, can you ask if

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Speaker 1: people using fog lights just driving around town is illegal?

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Speaker 2: Is not the thing to be done as far as

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Speaker 2: legislation goes. However, as I said before, I would prefer

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Speaker 2: people to be seen, and if that means putting their

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Speaker 2: lights on, so be it. But there's nothing wrong with

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Speaker 2: having your lights on dip during the day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess it all depends on the conditions

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Speaker 1: a lot of the time as well, doesn't it. Oh definitely, yeah, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I know that there's also there is always some issues

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Speaker 1: around road worthiness for vehicles. How are people going at

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Speaker 1: the moment and most people doing the right thing when

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Speaker 1: it comes to keeping their cars roadworthy? Or is it

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Speaker 1: always a bit of a timely reminder to make sure

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Speaker 1: your vehicle.

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Speaker 2: Is The wet season is always a good time to

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Speaker 2: check your vehicles. Make sure the tires are worthy of

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Speaker 2: being on the road, that they are going to help

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Speaker 2: you to stop. Check your brakes as well, you're steering,

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Speaker 2: and most importantly you're winscreen wipers, because if you can't

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Speaker 2: see where you're going, there's no point getting on that road.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always a good point I reckon as the

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Speaker 1: wet season begins. Sometimes you go, there's the first rain,

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Speaker 1: or you know, or you head out for the first

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Speaker 1: time when it is raining and you think, oh no,

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Speaker 1: I can hardly see outside of my bloody windscreen. You've

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Speaker 1: got to make sure your winscreen wipers are up to scratch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, lets get where we need to go safely.

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Speaker 1: You absolutely no. Well at the intersections as well. I

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Speaker 1: think you've got a bit of advice for people at

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Speaker 1: intersections too.

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Speaker 2: I've been looking at intersections over the last few weeks,

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Speaker 2: like all anti police are doing, but I've been noticing

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Speaker 2: a lot of people are pushing the boundaries when it

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Speaker 2: comes to the orange light red light. I observe vehicles

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Speaker 2: speeding up into an intersection, which is a big no no,

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Speaker 2: just to try and get into the intersection on an

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Speaker 2: orange Funny enough, the lay actually states if you can

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Speaker 2: safely do so, you must stop on an orange light.

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Speaker 2: It's not try and beat it. It is actually to stop.

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Speaker 2: And that's from when it turns orange, not from when

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Speaker 2: you see it as orange.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good advice, I think, And you know, at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, we all need to try and

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Speaker 1: keep each other as safe as possible on the roads.

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Speaker 1: I understand as well. The police are really going to

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Speaker 1: be you did mention it earlier, but really going to

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Speaker 1: be cracking down on people who are drink driving, who

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Speaker 1: are driving with drugs in their system. There's going to

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Speaker 1: be extra sort of extra patrols and things around, isn't there.

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Speaker 2: It's ramping up to that time of the year where

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Speaker 2: the anti police will be focusing on rape safety is

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Speaker 2: particularly drugs and alcohol. We've got the drug cats all

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Speaker 2: sitting at my station at the moment. They will be

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Speaker 2: in the booze bust and in the vehicles and we

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Speaker 2: will be testing more and more.

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Speaker 1: You've been warned well. Tiny Bennett Mt. Traffic Police sergeant

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Speaker 1: always good to catch up with you. Thanks for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Cheers Gatie, thank you