Shameful failure
Jul 14, 2021
3 minutes
Daniel Elkins
ON JANUARY 1, 2017 the South Australian government’s Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) introduced stage one of the Heavy Vehicle Inspection Scheme (the scheme) after a 2015 coroner's report into a tragic accident. The scheme proposed to address serious injury and death related to mechanical failure (defects).
Although no specific targets were set as to how many incidents the scheme would eliminate, it was aligned with the Towards Zero Together: South Australia’s Road Safety Strategy 2020, which sought to reduce serious injury and death by 30 per cent
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