How many people have died on the pacific highway in the past 20 years?
Yup – lots! Back in 2003 the NRMA did an audit on the Pacific Highway and the Sydney Morning Herald covered it. Here’s what they had to say: “The death toll on the Pacific Highway has fallen by less than a quarter despite an almost four-fold rise in the amount of divided carriageway on the coastal road, an NRMA audit shows. Pressure is mounting on authorities to re-examine the state’s heavy road toll, which appears to be stagnating at about 500 deaths a year. The audit shows death rates on the main north-south highway to Brisbane have dropped only about a quarter since 1995. This is despite a $2.2 billion 10-year Federal-State upgrade, which pushed the proportion of dual carriageway on the coast from 9 per cent to 32 per cent this year, according to the survey. The NRMA audit is published today, as the National Party hosts a summit on the issue at Coffs Harbour. The Roads Minister, Carl Scully, ordered a study this month into deaths on the highway. According to the audit, there are now
