IN JUST a 24-hour period, five young lives have been lost on Victoria’s roads.
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This is a shameful addition to the road toll so early into the year.
Ranging in age from 17 to 28 years, these men are being mourned by their family and friends after two separate and senseless incidents on our state’s roads.
In what has been described by one of Victoria’s top cops as the worst crash scene he has witnessed in his career, the death of four people in a single vehicle accident at Pyalong on Wednesday has shocked the state.
Assistant police commissioner Bob Hill said: “We’ve got four young men, four corpses in the car ... it’s a shocking sight, one of the worst I’ve been to.”
And what of the young policewoman, the first on the scene? Mr Hill said she would be given support.
“(She) comforted a young man, fighting for life. It would have been distressing for her, no doubt,” he said.
And now investigators believe the drug ice may have been a factor in the horror smash.
What is it going to take for drivers to learn that, just like alcohol, drugs and driving do not mix?
Just like alcohol, drugs impair the judgement of those behind the wheel.
Extensive and quite confronting advertising, by both police and the Transport Accident Commission, doesn’t seem to be getting through to these young drivers, who think they are infallible, that it won’t happen to them.
But it does happen ... over and over and over again.
Each weekend drug-affected youths get behind the wheel and each weekend their trusting mates join them as passengers. Who knows what could be just around the corner?
In the second road tragedy this week, two teenagers were hit by an SUV while crossing the road in Melbourne.
As a result, a 17-year-old boy has died and his 17-year-old female companion is fighting for her life in hospital.
The vehicle’s driver fled the scene, but a man was arrested in relation to the crash on Thursday.