Remi Matthew Aldridge died in a car crash that catastrophically injured his mother and killed a little girl – but under Victorian law,he was not considered a human being.
Vehicle collisions kill an average of three people a day in Australia. Drivers are often the focus of blame but other factors can play a part,including the design of the roads we hurtle along.
As cars passed through a Ferntree Gully intersection Mathew Dyer,high on ice and unlicensed,sped up causing a violent crash that killed his passenger.
Our sprawling geography and love for car trips are making our roads a danger zone,and speed limits are the elephant in the room of making them safer.
Yarra council is dropping speed limits for safety,but the chief commissioner says the move won’t make a difference to road trauma and no one will obey it.
The girlfriend of a young man who died in Victoria had been planning their future for when he returned from Australia,now she’s trying to accept he - and his three mates - are not coming home.
David Gasologa’s fiancee was waiting for him to return home from his work in Australia,until a fiery car crash claimed his life at the weekend.
Four people from central Victoria died after their rental car lost control and burst into flames in Piries,near Mansfield. Police said it could have been hours before someone noticed the burnt-out car.
Such sudden ghastliness as the crash that claimed five lives is not supposed to happen in full view of tourists and contented townsfolk in such a lovely little town.
Transurban only became the world’s wealthiest toll-road Frankenstein because our state governments are strapped for cash.
A children’s birthday party ended with the deaths of two teen cousins who collided into each other while riding unregistered dirt bikes in Melbourne’s north-west on Sunday. The father of one of the teens was injured driving to the scene.