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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to mix one oh four nine's three sixty.
Now we know the community is devastated. The community is
reeling following the death of a much love seventy one
year old man overnight Linford Fake, the owner of the
Nightcliff Friendly Grocer, was allegedly killed inside his business. Joining
(00:21):
me in the studio is the Northern Territory Assistant Commissioner
of Police, Travis Worth. Good morning to.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You, morning Katie, morning to your listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Assistant Commissioner, can you talk me through what unfolded last
night in terms of the apprehension of this eighteen year
old offender.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Of course, So, just prior to five point thirty yesterday afternoon,
police received a call regarding an incident that occurred at
the five Star supermarket in the Nightcliff Shopping precinct. Police
and Saint John's responded almost immediately to that came across
a person who sustained an injury to their upper upper chest.
When they arrived, there were bystanders who were present and
(01:00):
at the time were providing good critical care to that
particular person, but unfortunately, despite that care, he passed away
at the scene. The person who was involved in the altercation.
He left the area after in flipping an injury upon
that mail. He left the area on a pushbike and
was not able to be located by police immediately. Northern
(01:23):
Charitory Police then moved into a search phase. We rolled
out multiple specialist resources as well as frontline staff and
scoured the community for this particular person. We identified him
through some good work by the Trident team around a
potential identity, spoke with family. Through the engagement with family,
(01:45):
that person just after midnight this morning, so at about
actually twelve thirty five, he attended the Palmerston Police station
and handed himself in. He was subsequently arrested for that
particular incident and he's currently still in police custody at
Palmerston Police Station. He's yet to be charged with any offending.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Assistant Commissioner, you know, if I'm to read between the
lines there, the fact that Strikeforce tried and had a
fair idea of who this person was indicates to me
that this person was known to the police.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So this person that's currently in police custody is an
eighteen year old male and we can confirm that he's
currently on bail, that is Supreme Court bail. He appeared
in court on the seventeenth of April and was bailed
to reside in a remote, in digitous, top end community.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Are you able to say which community that?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I won't say that this stage. He was not wearing
electronic monitoring bracelet because of the location of that particular community,
and we are trying to determine what his movements were
after that date. He's eighteen years of age, but he
only turned eighteen three days ago, so he's only just
(03:00):
turned eighteen.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So he's literally just turned eighteen years old. Yes, Again,
if I'm to read between the lines, being on Supreme
Court bail would indicate that this just turned eighteen year
old has been involved in quite serious prior offending.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He's on bail for serious offenses. Yes, but I'm not
able to provide that information to your listeners at this stage,
other than to say that the offending was serious enough
that it went to the Supreme Court as a young person.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now, just in terms of the comment that you'd made
about not being able to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet,
is that because you're not actually able, like they can't
get coverage or whatever is required in that remote community.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You need good coverage in remote communities to be able
to any community for that matter, to have effective electronic monitoring,
and some of the remote communities across the Northern Territory
are not able to be utilized in that way.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, all right, Assistant Commissioner, what are the next steps
from a police perspective, Now we know this person's been arrested,
not get charged. What are the next steps from your
perspective in terms of laying those charges but also pulling
together a case to make sure you know that this
person faces the full consequence of the law.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So Northern Territory Police attended the location of the incident
almost immediately after we had been notified. As soon as
we realized that it was rather a very serious incident
where someone who passed away. We enact our crime team,
so Major Crime have carriage of this matter. We have
a full governance structure in place. We have collected significant
(04:32):
amount of evidence already in relation to eyewitnesses CCTV. What
we're doing now is a crime still is still in place.
We have our seal forensics teams doing the work that
they need to do with at location this morning and
into probably this afternoon. A post mordern examination by our
Northern Territory forensic pathologist is going to occur at some
(04:53):
stage today as we understand, and once all that evidence
is collected, then we'll make a determination in conjunction with
the Director of Public Prosecutions about what is the appropriate
charge to lay in relation to this person. The marlets
and custody will remain in custody until such a time
as that charge is laid.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Assistant Commissioner, what is what's the plan for today in
terms of really reassuring the community that you know that
people are safe, reassuring people that work in shops that
are so often confronted with people that do allegedly steal
from them, and you know their reaction is to say, hey,
stop what you're doing. Nobody expects that they're going to
(05:33):
be on the receiving end of what happened overnight or
late yesterday, of course, and.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We understand that we have done a lot of proactive
policing in and around the Greater day And area, including
in the Nightcliff area, but today specifically an operation will
be run to provide that community reassurance to the community
more broadly, but also shopkeepers, those that use the public
(05:58):
transport network. Police will be visible as they always are,
but today specifically, again, as I said, to provide that
reassurance because we know that events such as this, any
death that is unnecessary has an impact on our community.
But this person obviously has been a store ward of
that particular Nightcliff community for a long time. We know that,
(06:20):
and this will be causing some angst for our community.
We know that as well. So it's our job now
to provide that reassurance through that public exposure, to see
the uniform and to engage with our community and make
sure that anyone who's choosing not to obey the laws
I carry an edge weapon or behave in a manner
that is not acceptable to the public, that we're able
(06:43):
to occur that behavior as best we can. Police cannot
be everywhere at all times. I do know that there's
a police station in Nightcliffe, and I know that there
is narrative around why police weren't at that location at
that time. Police can't be everywhere, and the way in
which this instant transpired is such that police could have
been standing out the front of that shop and it
(07:04):
may not have prevented this unnecessary death from occurring, just
because of the way it transpired. Police attended very quickly.
The police that are operating from the Nightcliff Police Station
currently are the Territory Safety Division and they provide public
order support and they're also providing supporting our watchouses at
the moment, so the staff that were from that station
(07:25):
were out and about and they weren't necessarily sitting out
in front of that particular supermarket.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Assistant Commissioner, I mean, what do you say to people
that feel that that Nightcliff Police station is a white elephant.
You know that it's not working.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I'm aware of that narrative. And it's a location was
non operational at a point in time. It's now has
an operational presence operating from it. That presence is not
twenty four to seven, but with current resourcing capability that
we have across the Greater Dayan area, we have as
much operational policing operating from that location as we can
at this point in time. That being said, we still
(07:59):
have operational twenty four seven police stations in dah and
Casarina and Palmerston and Hunty Do, so we do have
twenty four to seven policing coverage across the Greater Dayan area.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Assistant Commissioner, I want to ask, I mean, are you
as frustrated as the community is right now or as
I don't even know what the right word is for it,
but by the fact that this eighteen year old you know, Will,
he's just turned eighteen days ago, is on bail for
(08:31):
for serious offenses and able to you know, to commit
a crime like this.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The reasons behind his conducts will yet to be determined,
and obviously our investigation in that regard is ongoing, but generally,
the behavior of some of the people that travel from
remote communities into the greata Dayan area is deplorable. It's
not acceptable. The community has every right to feel safe,
and at times that safety gets compromised by the behaviors
of these people. Whether they're adults or you, that doesn't
(09:00):
really matter. In this regard. We asked the community, particularly
from a community leadership point of view, to reach in
and provide some guidance to young people who have no
respect for themselves, for the community, for their own people
and culture, and we just asked that everyone worked together
to be able to understand what issues might be in
(09:21):
place and then seek help and required. This was a
young person that clearly was a troubled individual all of
his background. I'm not entirely sure, but his behavior has
led to the unnecessary death of an individual, and now
that young person's potentially going to be in custody for
a long long time. So we've lost two lives effectively,
as well as the heartache and pain that's going to
be caused to the direct family and the broader community.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
This, I mean, this is the thing. It is just like,
it's absolutely terrible on so many levels. I mean, I
want to ask you in terms of those witnesses, in
terms of the police, the first responders who were there
on the scene yesterday, I mean, in the discussion that
you've had, in when you observe and when you now
look back at what they did, in the way in
(10:05):
which they responded, I mean, it sounds as though in
some cases it's nothing short of heroic.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It absolutely is. So the men and women that wear
the uniform that are there twenty four to seven every
day across the territory are doing exemporary things every minute
of every day. Sometimes things still happen and we can't
be everywhere, as I said indicated earlier, but the response
from the members of the public who provided that initial
critical care those individuals, some of them had actual medical training,
(10:36):
they still weren't able to save this person's life. What
we did do this morning, I've already had a conversation
with our team. We've already put a welfare component in
place to make sure we support our people, because you
cannot continually see trauma to the extent that we see
in the Northern Territory without having an impact on our
frontline and all our specialist staff as well. So we're
very mindful of that. We're mindful of the calls that
(10:58):
are received into our desk and the impact that has
the people providing the leadership in the desk. I reached
out to that individual last night because last night was
a particularly difficult chief We had lots of tragedy across
the territory. Yeah, and that has an impact on our people.
And it's not when you're at work, but it's when
you're at home and with your families. So from an
eternal point of view, yeah, it's really quite difficult. And
(11:19):
the level of trauma that we're seeing in the territory
is high, It's always been high, but it has that
impact longer term. Yeah, and we've got to be very
mindful of that as an agency.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Look, I will ask you about that crash in just
a moment, that terrible crash. I mean, the Chief Minister
was in the studio a few moments ago. She described
some of the actions that we are seeing as feeling
like we are under attack by terrorists.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Look are they're the Chief Minister's words. We know that
we've got some significant social issues that we are combating
at the moment. Some of them are as a consequence
of trauma that people have been exposed to. Some of
the behavior is alcohol or drug related, some of it
maybe mental health related. There are so many calls factors
to what's occurring at the moment across the territory that
(12:05):
our job is to understand what those factors are and
then put things in measures in place with all of
our partner agencies to make sure that we can do
our best to ensure that community safety. And at times
we have a tragedy that then triggers action. We need
to get to a point where we're actually in front
of this as best we can, because we don't need
(12:26):
these tragedies occurring nice. This is deplorable. I feel for
the family, I feel for the community and police will
continue to do what we do and we'll do it
well as best we can. But there's it's more than
just a policing issue.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Here, Assistant Commissioner. As you touched on, it's not the
only tragedy from last night. Unfortunately, two people lost their
lives on our road as well.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah. Look, unfortunately, just prior to eight pm last night,
police received a call of a serious crash on the
Stuart Highway between Bachelor and Acacia Hills. The crash site
was confirmed eleven one kilometer sorry north of China Road.
As a consequence of that crash, a twenty five year
old female who was traveling southbound passed away. That person
(13:11):
is believed to be an MPTY resident, and a thirty
five year old male and the other vehicle was traveling northbound.
Whether that person's an NTY resident or not was yet
to determine, but he also lost his life. There were
no other passengers in the vehicle and as soon as
the crash was reported, police from Partmas in Adelaide River attended.
The road. Closures were put in place and Major Crash attended.
(13:34):
Major Crash remained on site all night and the scene
was clear just after six am this morning when the
road was open. I've just had a conversation with our
officer in charge of a major crash unit, and the
team are still working through causes of that crash. It's
too early to say whether speed or in attention were
(13:54):
were factors, or alcohol for that matter. But the tragedy
is we've had two people lose their lives on roads.
We had such a positive Easter weekend experience from our roads.
We're lots of police presence, but obviously people behaved and
adhere to the rules and traffic laws and we didn't
(14:14):
lose a life. We have a long weekend this weekend,
we have another coming up. We implore people don't just
assume because you think police are going to be on
the road. You behave you behave. Anyway, our media manager
was driving in he lives in the rural area of
this morning some morning. We both met in the office
very early, and he was overtaken by a car doing
well and excess of one hundred and thirtykilimeters an hour
(14:35):
this morning. So people just have a disregard for the
road rules, their own safety, and other road users, and
that sort of behavior is what leads to these crashes,
particularly on unlit high speed rural roads where we know
rural areas are a significant black spot for the Northern
Territory community. We have a lot of crashes in the
rural areas and regional remote areas as well. So over
(14:58):
two long weekends coming up, please obay the road rules.
Understand the fatal five. Have you seat built on, Do
not be drug or alco affective when you drive, do
not speed, and do not be distracted. If you do
those things then your likelihood of survivor on our roads
is really high. But if you don't, then you may
not and we do not want that to be the case.
(15:18):
We're now at eight deaths on our roads in the
Order Territory for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Well as System Commissioner Travis Wurst, really appreciate your time
this morning. Thank you very much for joining us, and yeah,
no doubt going to be a busy day for everybody involved.
Thank you, thank you. It is just on fifteen minutes
away from ten o'clock.
You are listening to mix one oh four nine's three sixty.
Now we know the community is devastated. The community is
reeling following the death of a much love seventy one
year old man overnight Linford Fake, the owner of the
Nightcliff Friendly Grocer, was allegedly killed inside his business. Joining
(00:21):
me in the studio is the Northern Territory Assistant Commissioner
of Police, Travis Worth. Good morning to.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You, morning Katie, morning to your listeners.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Assistant Commissioner, can you talk me through what unfolded last
night in terms of the apprehension of this eighteen year
old offender.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Of course, So, just prior to five point thirty yesterday afternoon,
police received a call regarding an incident that occurred at
the five Star supermarket in the Nightcliff Shopping precinct. Police
and Saint John's responded almost immediately to that came across
a person who sustained an injury to their upper upper chest.
When they arrived, there were bystanders who were present and
(01:00):
at the time were providing good critical care to that
particular person, but unfortunately, despite that care, he passed away
at the scene. The person who was involved in the altercation.
He left the area after in flipping an injury upon
that mail. He left the area on a pushbike and
was not able to be located by police immediately. Northern
(01:23):
Charitory Police then moved into a search phase. We rolled
out multiple specialist resources as well as frontline staff and
scoured the community for this particular person. We identified him
through some good work by the Trident team around a
potential identity, spoke with family. Through the engagement with family,
(01:45):
that person just after midnight this morning, so at about
actually twelve thirty five, he attended the Palmerston Police station
and handed himself in. He was subsequently arrested for that
particular incident and he's currently still in police custody at
Palmerston Police Station. He's yet to be charged with any offending.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Assistant Commissioner, you know, if I'm to read between the
lines there, the fact that Strikeforce tried and had a
fair idea of who this person was indicates to me
that this person was known to the police.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So this person that's currently in police custody is an
eighteen year old male and we can confirm that he's
currently on bail, that is Supreme Court bail. He appeared
in court on the seventeenth of April and was bailed
to reside in a remote, in digitous, top end community.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Are you able to say which community that?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I won't say that this stage. He was not wearing
electronic monitoring bracelet because of the location of that particular community,
and we are trying to determine what his movements were
after that date. He's eighteen years of age, but he
only turned eighteen three days ago, so he's only just
(03:00):
turned eighteen.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So he's literally just turned eighteen years old. Yes, Again,
if I'm to read between the lines, being on Supreme
Court bail would indicate that this just turned eighteen year
old has been involved in quite serious prior offending.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He's on bail for serious offenses. Yes, but I'm not
able to provide that information to your listeners at this stage,
other than to say that the offending was serious enough
that it went to the Supreme Court as a young person.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now, just in terms of the comment that you'd made
about not being able to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet,
is that because you're not actually able, like they can't
get coverage or whatever is required in that remote community.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You need good coverage in remote communities to be able
to any community for that matter, to have effective electronic monitoring,
and some of the remote communities across the Northern Territory
are not able to be utilized in that way.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, all right, Assistant Commissioner, what are the next steps
from a police perspective, Now we know this person's been arrested,
not get charged. What are the next steps from your
perspective in terms of laying those charges but also pulling
together a case to make sure you know that this
person faces the full consequence of the law.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So Northern Territory Police attended the location of the incident
almost immediately after we had been notified. As soon as
we realized that it was rather a very serious incident
where someone who passed away. We enact our crime team,
so Major Crime have carriage of this matter. We have
a full governance structure in place. We have collected significant
(04:32):
amount of evidence already in relation to eyewitnesses CCTV. What
we're doing now is a crime still is still in place.
We have our seal forensics teams doing the work that
they need to do with at location this morning and
into probably this afternoon. A post mordern examination by our
Northern Territory forensic pathologist is going to occur at some
(04:53):
stage today as we understand, and once all that evidence
is collected, then we'll make a determination in conjunction with
the Director of Public Prosecutions about what is the appropriate
charge to lay in relation to this person. The marlets
and custody will remain in custody until such a time
as that charge is laid.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Assistant Commissioner, what is what's the plan for today in
terms of really reassuring the community that you know that
people are safe, reassuring people that work in shops that
are so often confronted with people that do allegedly steal
from them, and you know their reaction is to say, hey,
stop what you're doing. Nobody expects that they're going to
(05:33):
be on the receiving end of what happened overnight or
late yesterday, of course, and.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We understand that we have done a lot of proactive
policing in and around the Greater day And area, including
in the Nightcliff area, but today specifically an operation will
be run to provide that community reassurance to the community
more broadly, but also shopkeepers, those that use the public
(05:58):
transport network. Police will be visible as they always are,
but today specifically, again, as I said, to provide that
reassurance because we know that events such as this, any
death that is unnecessary has an impact on our community.
But this person obviously has been a store ward of
that particular Nightcliff community for a long time. We know that,
(06:20):
and this will be causing some angst for our community.
We know that as well. So it's our job now
to provide that reassurance through that public exposure, to see
the uniform and to engage with our community and make
sure that anyone who's choosing not to obey the laws
I carry an edge weapon or behave in a manner
that is not acceptable to the public, that we're able
(06:43):
to occur that behavior as best we can. Police cannot
be everywhere at all times. I do know that there's
a police station in Nightcliffe, and I know that there
is narrative around why police weren't at that location at
that time. Police can't be everywhere, and the way in
which this instant transpired is such that police could have
been standing out the front of that shop and it
(07:04):
may not have prevented this unnecessary death from occurring, just
because of the way it transpired. Police attended very quickly.
The police that are operating from the Nightcliff Police Station
currently are the Territory Safety Division and they provide public
order support and they're also providing supporting our watchouses at
the moment, so the staff that were from that station
(07:25):
were out and about and they weren't necessarily sitting out
in front of that particular supermarket.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Assistant Commissioner, I mean, what do you say to people
that feel that that Nightcliff Police station is a white elephant.
You know that it's not working.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I'm aware of that narrative. And it's a location was
non operational at a point in time. It's now has
an operational presence operating from it. That presence is not
twenty four to seven, but with current resourcing capability that
we have across the Greater Dayan area, we have as
much operational policing operating from that location as we can
at this point in time. That being said, we still
(07:59):
have operational twenty four seven police stations in dah and
Casarina and Palmerston and Hunty Do, so we do have
twenty four to seven policing coverage across the Greater Dayan area.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Assistant Commissioner, I want to ask, I mean, are you
as frustrated as the community is right now or as
I don't even know what the right word is for it,
but by the fact that this eighteen year old you know, Will,
he's just turned eighteen days ago, is on bail for
(08:31):
for serious offenses and able to you know, to commit
a crime like this.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The reasons behind his conducts will yet to be determined,
and obviously our investigation in that regard is ongoing, but generally,
the behavior of some of the people that travel from
remote communities into the greata Dayan area is deplorable. It's
not acceptable. The community has every right to feel safe,
and at times that safety gets compromised by the behaviors
of these people. Whether they're adults or you, that doesn't
(09:00):
really matter. In this regard. We asked the community, particularly
from a community leadership point of view, to reach in
and provide some guidance to young people who have no
respect for themselves, for the community, for their own people
and culture, and we just asked that everyone worked together
to be able to understand what issues might be in
(09:21):
place and then seek help and required. This was a
young person that clearly was a troubled individual all of
his background. I'm not entirely sure, but his behavior has
led to the unnecessary death of an individual, and now
that young person's potentially going to be in custody for
a long long time. So we've lost two lives effectively,
as well as the heartache and pain that's going to
be caused to the direct family and the broader community.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
This, I mean, this is the thing. It is just like,
it's absolutely terrible on so many levels. I mean, I
want to ask you in terms of those witnesses, in
terms of the police, the first responders who were there
on the scene yesterday, I mean, in the discussion that
you've had, in when you observe and when you now
look back at what they did, in the way in
(10:05):
which they responded, I mean, it sounds as though in
some cases it's nothing short of heroic.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
It absolutely is. So the men and women that wear
the uniform that are there twenty four to seven every
day across the territory are doing exemporary things every minute
of every day. Sometimes things still happen and we can't
be everywhere, as I said indicated earlier, but the response
from the members of the public who provided that initial
critical care those individuals, some of them had actual medical training,
(10:36):
they still weren't able to save this person's life. What
we did do this morning, I've already had a conversation
with our team. We've already put a welfare component in
place to make sure we support our people, because you
cannot continually see trauma to the extent that we see
in the Northern Territory without having an impact on our
frontline and all our specialist staff as well. So we're
very mindful of that. We're mindful of the calls that
(10:58):
are received into our desk and the impact that has
the people providing the leadership in the desk. I reached
out to that individual last night because last night was
a particularly difficult chief We had lots of tragedy across
the territory. Yeah, and that has an impact on our people.
And it's not when you're at work, but it's when
you're at home and with your families. So from an
eternal point of view, yeah, it's really quite difficult. And
(11:19):
the level of trauma that we're seeing in the territory
is high, It's always been high, but it has that
impact longer term. Yeah, and we've got to be very
mindful of that as an agency.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Look, I will ask you about that crash in just
a moment, that terrible crash. I mean, the Chief Minister
was in the studio a few moments ago. She described
some of the actions that we are seeing as feeling
like we are under attack by terrorists.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Look are they're the Chief Minister's words. We know that
we've got some significant social issues that we are combating
at the moment. Some of them are as a consequence
of trauma that people have been exposed to. Some of
the behavior is alcohol or drug related, some of it
maybe mental health related. There are so many calls factors
to what's occurring at the moment across the territory that
(12:05):
our job is to understand what those factors are and
then put things in measures in place with all of
our partner agencies to make sure that we can do
our best to ensure that community safety. And at times
we have a tragedy that then triggers action. We need
to get to a point where we're actually in front
of this as best we can, because we don't need
(12:26):
these tragedies occurring nice. This is deplorable. I feel for
the family, I feel for the community and police will
continue to do what we do and we'll do it
well as best we can. But there's it's more than
just a policing issue.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Here, Assistant Commissioner. As you touched on, it's not the
only tragedy from last night. Unfortunately, two people lost their
lives on our road as well.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah. Look, unfortunately, just prior to eight pm last night,
police received a call of a serious crash on the
Stuart Highway between Bachelor and Acacia Hills. The crash site
was confirmed eleven one kilometer sorry north of China Road.
As a consequence of that crash, a twenty five year
old female who was traveling southbound passed away. That person
(13:11):
is believed to be an MPTY resident, and a thirty
five year old male and the other vehicle was traveling northbound.
Whether that person's an NTY resident or not was yet
to determine, but he also lost his life. There were
no other passengers in the vehicle and as soon as
the crash was reported, police from Partmas in Adelaide River attended.
The road. Closures were put in place and Major Crash attended.
(13:34):
Major Crash remained on site all night and the scene
was clear just after six am this morning when the
road was open. I've just had a conversation with our
officer in charge of a major crash unit, and the
team are still working through causes of that crash. It's
too early to say whether speed or in attention were
(13:54):
were factors, or alcohol for that matter. But the tragedy
is we've had two people lose their lives on roads.
We had such a positive Easter weekend experience from our roads.
We're lots of police presence, but obviously people behaved and
adhere to the rules and traffic laws and we didn't
(14:14):
lose a life. We have a long weekend this weekend,
we have another coming up. We implore people don't just
assume because you think police are going to be on
the road. You behave you behave. Anyway, our media manager
was driving in he lives in the rural area of
this morning some morning. We both met in the office
very early, and he was overtaken by a car doing
well and excess of one hundred and thirtykilimeters an hour
(14:35):
this morning. So people just have a disregard for the
road rules, their own safety, and other road users, and
that sort of behavior is what leads to these crashes,
particularly on unlit high speed rural roads where we know
rural areas are a significant black spot for the Northern
Territory community. We have a lot of crashes in the
rural areas and regional remote areas as well. So over
(14:58):
two long weekends coming up, please obay the road rules.
Understand the fatal five. Have you seat built on, Do
not be drug or alco affective when you drive, do
not speed, and do not be distracted. If you do
those things then your likelihood of survivor on our roads
is really high. But if you don't, then you may
not and we do not want that to be the case.
(15:18):
We're now at eight deaths on our roads in the
Order Territory for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Well as System Commissioner Travis Wurst, really appreciate your time
this morning. Thank you very much for joining us, and yeah,
no doubt going to be a busy day for everybody involved.
Thank you, thank you. It is just on fifteen minutes
away from ten o'clock.
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