Victoria: State Government To Retain 70, 90Km/h Speed Limits

The state government in Victoria is set to halt a program that would have seen many 70km/h and 90km/h speed limits lowered.

Under a scheme commenced by the previous state government, each of these speed limits was to be reduced by 10km/h.

The policy followed advice from Victoria’s Transport Accident Commission (TAC), which claims the chances of a fatality following a collision doubles with every 5km/h above 60km/h.

But a campaign by the RACV and community newspapers to scrap the scheme has hit its target, with state Roads Minister, Luke Donnellan, announcing the change.

The campaign follows calls from the RACV for police to relax the focus on low-level speeding, with new data showing that fines for these offences have tripled in the last five years.

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