The Wire

Nine out of ten deaths on the road can be avoided if pedestrians and motorists were more careful. This according to a Surgeons collective which labelled road deaths, Australia’s neglected epidemic. The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Tauma Committee belives that society’s blase attitude towards poor driver and pedestrian behaviour has seen emergency wards across the country jam-packed with road trauma patients who just shouldn’t be there. The organization’s chair, Professor Danny Cass, outlined his concerns to The Wire.