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Speaker 1: Now, there is always plenty happening around the place, and

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Speaker 1: there's always a lot happening on our roads. Now joining

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Speaker 1: me in the studio right now is Superintendent Rick mcgree.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Rick, Yeah, very well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And I've also got Senior Sergeant Dev kanyel Maz Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really good, great to have you both in the

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Speaker 1: studio now. You guys are obviously both from the Road

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Speaker 1: Safety Division. Is that what I refer it to it as, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Territory Road Safety Division, and there has there is always

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Speaker 1: quite a bit happening on our roads. We know that. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: we've had a couple of you know, pretty serious incidents

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Speaker 1: in recent days. Now I do want to ask you

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Speaker 1: about and I know that this is not probably a

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Speaker 1: huge amount that you can say following on from the

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Speaker 1: tragic buggy crash that had happened in girwayin a forty

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Speaker 1: year old man's life lost. You know, from all accounts,

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Speaker 1: a great bloke who is you know, a wonderful member

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Speaker 1: of the community. And you know, I think a reminder

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Speaker 1: in whether you're talking about on our roads or wherever

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Speaker 1: you're talking about, being in a vehicle. The impact that

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Speaker 1: loss of life has on the entire community when something

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Speaker 1: like this happens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's absolutely huge. And that's what was so passionate

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Speaker 3: about what we do is because you do see the

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Speaker 3: effects of it when it goes wrong unfortunately, like it

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Speaker 3: did tragically on the weekend. So you know, the advice

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Speaker 3: to everyone is just in those certain circumstance, if you're

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Speaker 3: on the road or even on the beach or on

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Speaker 3: your property, is still remember that it is really dangerous

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Speaker 3: and where all the safety protecting equipment and you know,

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Speaker 3: slow down and have a think about what you can

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Speaker 3: do to make that as safe as possible for yourself

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Speaker 3: and other people around.

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Speaker 1: Now. Unfortunately, yesterday morning as well, we started to get

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Speaker 1: messages coming through about a crash at Humpty Do dev.

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Speaker 1: Is there much of an update on that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, Unfortunately yesterday we had an accident out

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Speaker 2: it's a Humpty Do where a semi trailer pulled over

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Speaker 2: an emergency situation where just the lost operation vehicle veered

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Speaker 2: off from its path and unfortunately motorcycle rider collided with

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Speaker 2: the vehicle. He's currently still at hospital in a serious condition.

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Speaker 2: We will be updated in due course in relation to that.

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Speaker 1: So still in hospital at this point in time. It

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Speaker 1: sounded like it was pretty nasty, certainly from the messages

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Speaker 1: that we're getting on the tech sign yesterday, people letting

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Speaker 1: us know that there was obviously traffic diversions in place.

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Speaker 1: Did it take a while to sort of, you know,

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Speaker 1: to get everything back up and running out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, these situations do take time to investigate to

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Speaker 2: make safe, which you know, those inquiries investigations will continue

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Speaker 2: on Look, we just urge drivers to just take care

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Speaker 2: for each other on the road.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now in terms of the now, obviously lots happening

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Speaker 1: on the track at the think, but it's also an

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Speaker 1: opportunity also a time when I think the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: Police are down there just making sure everyone's sort of

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Speaker 1: behaving themselves. How did it go over the weekend?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it went really really well. We had quite a

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Speaker 3: large team down there focusing on the road policing aspect

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Speaker 3: of that event and just trying to make sure that

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Speaker 3: everyone had a safe event and could enjoy themselves. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: the team did really really well down there. There was

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Speaker 3: close to three thousand breath tests over that whole period,

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Speaker 3: and out of that there was thirteen people who tested

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Speaker 3: positive to alcohol, which again is thirteen too many, but

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Speaker 3: you know, thank you to the people who did the

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Speaker 3: right thing and ensure that everyone could have a good time.

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Speaker 1: And drug testing also conducted.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, So that's something we've been ramping up our

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Speaker 3: drug testing. So down there we did forty two negative

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Speaker 3: that's again way too many, way too many, and just

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Speaker 3: people need to be aware that we are out there.

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Speaker 3: Drug testing is increasing, so expect to be drug tested

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Speaker 3: at events or just randomly as well.

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Speaker 1: And was there I understand there was a number of

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Speaker 1: traffic infringement notices issued as well, was it? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yep, So all up there was two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: four traffic infringement special do we Yeah, that would be

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Speaker 3: a variety of things from speeding, not wearing seat belts,

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Speaker 3: unregistered motor vehicles, and those real key ones that are

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Speaker 3: linked back to our fatal five. Is that quite a

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Speaker 3: high number, Yeah, that would be yeah, yeap. So ultimately

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Speaker 3: we'd want to be in a position where we're not

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Speaker 3: having to issue any is the reality of it but

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Speaker 3: you know, different people take their messages in different way

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Speaker 3: and that's always an outcome. If you're not doing the

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Speaker 3: right thing, particularly around those those ones that do link

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Speaker 3: to our fatal five, like our speeding and seat belts,

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Speaker 3: you know, mobile phone news, then we will be taking action.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and not the only you know, not the only

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Speaker 1: sort of I guess you'd say proactive policing on our roads.

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Speaker 1: That happened over the weekend. There's so many dry season

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Speaker 1: of you know with all of those dry season events

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Speaker 1: on the weekend as well, weren't you Definitely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was lots on the weekend. We had Barunga

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Speaker 2: Festival as well, which really kicked off a good attendance rate. Again,

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Speaker 2: we're out there in force just making sure people doing

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Speaker 2: the right things on the road. Really good response, there

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Speaker 2: some good behaviors on the roads, which is good to see.

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Speaker 2: We also had the Adelaide River radeo, so yeah, we

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Speaker 2: along with Adelaide River supporting them. Unfortunately, we did see

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Speaker 2: a few drink drivers and infringements issued for speeding, but

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Speaker 2: overall a really good weekend. So yeah, we're really happy.

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Speaker 1: And we've got some We've got some massive events coming

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Speaker 1: up as well, including the supercars. I mean that's always

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Speaker 1: a time when the police are pretty proactive too, aren't they.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. So our message around these events are not

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Speaker 3: just in relation to those, but leave the racing on

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Speaker 3: the track. Ye you know, there's enough publicly organized things

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Speaker 3: if if that's a passion of yours to do it,

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Speaker 3: you know, organize a left, get a uber or a

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Speaker 1: Hey can I ask you both? Because we always get

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Speaker 1: messages coming through about people being struck by cars, pedestrians being.

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Speaker 3: Struck by cars.

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Speaker 1: Particularly, it seems as though that bag Itt Road area

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Speaker 1: Obviously people are wanting to be vigilant, they're wanting to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, and that's why we really stress that, you know,

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Speaker 3: That's why we're so strict about that, and that's why

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Speaker 3: So you know, I sort of find that that sort

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Speaker 3: slow down and be aware to what's happening and what's

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Speaker 1: Is it an area that is a bit of a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, it is one of our hot spots

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Speaker 3: do a lot of work around to try and you know,

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Speaker 3: when it comes to road safety, it's everyone's business. So

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Speaker 3: there's work that we're doing with pedestrians and there's also

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Speaker 3: work we're doing with drivers as well. So if we

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Speaker 1: To catch up with you both this morning, Superintendent Rick

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Speaker 1: mcgrae and Senior Sergeant dev Knyl maz Good morning to

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Speaker 1: you both. Thank you for coming onto the show for us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you,