28th of May, 2024
Victorian Legislative Council, Melbourne
RACHEL PAYNE — To ask the Minister for Corrections (for the Minister for Police):
In relation to road fatalities:
(1) For each of the five most recent calendar years —
(a) how many fatal motor vehicle accidents occurred in Victoria;
(b) how many fatal motor vehicle accidents occurred by a Police Service Area;
(c) what were the ‘associated factors’, such as speed, fatigue, road condition, alcohol, legal drugs and illegal drugs, associated with the fatal motor vehicle accidents in paragraph (a);
(d) how many ‘at fault’ drivers died in a motor vehicle accident;
(e) how many ‘at fault’ drivers and ‘at fault’ riders that died as a result of a fatal motor vehicle accident had toxicology results post-mortem that identified the presence of —
(i) any alcohol, with or without any identified legal or proscribed illegal drug;
(ii) alcohol alone, without any identified legal or proscribed illegal drug;
(iii) any benzodiazepine, with or without alcohol, any proscribed illegal drug, or any opioid;
(iv) benzodiazepines alone, without alcohol any proscribed illegal drug, or any opioid;
(v) any opioid, with or without alcohol, any proscribed illegal drug, or any benzodiazepine;
(vi) opioids alone, without alcohol, any proscribed illegal drug, or any benzodiazepine;
(vii) any cannabis, with or without alcohol or any identified legal drug or any other proscribed illegal drug;
(viii) cannabis alone, without alcohol or any identified legal drug or any other proscribed illegal drug;
(ix) any methamphetamine;
(x) methamphetamine alone;
(xi) any ecstasy;
(xii) ecstasy alone; and
(xiii) any cocaine.
(2) For each of the identified legal drugs and proscribed illegal drugs, what is the cut-off drug concentration that is used to define the presence of the drug in a sample of blood.
(3) For each of the ‘at fault’ drivers and riders who died as a result of a motor vehicle accident identified in paragraphs (1)(e)(vii) to (viii), what were the actual measured tetrahydrocannabinol concentrations, shown in table format.
[Answer Pending]
