Victoria’s top traffic cop vents frustration at shocking start to 2022 on the roads

Victoria’s top traffic cop has expressed frustration at the state’s shocking start to 2022 on the roads.

There have already been 15 lives lost on Victorian roads this year.

That figure was four people at the same point last year.

“It’s incredibly frustrating, Neil,” Assistant Commissioner Glenn Weir told Neil Mitchell.

“So many of them are avoidable.”

Mr Weir said he’d support any changes to the law that helped save lives, with some calling for the reduction of speed limits on rural roads from 100km/h to 80km/h.

“We know 30 per cent of lives lost happen on low-volume, rural roads with a 100km/h speed zone,” he said.

“There has been this rural myth that it’s visitors from the city, or people who don’t know how to drive but we know that’s not actually true.

“Anything that can lessen the risk to the community on those roads is something we’d support.”

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