The deaths of two women in a hit-and-run in Darwin yesterday has reignited conversations around road safety in the territory. With the death toll continuing its dramatic climb and the busy holiday period approaching, Police are urging road users to curb dangerous behaviour
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00:00Searching for answers in Darwin's North, just yesterday two women died after being
00:07hit by a car on Trawa Road near Kajurina Beach, with a third woman fighting for her life.
00:15It's an area that's known to be frequented by a number of groups of people, and that
00:23alone is making it quite a complex investigation, trying to narrow down who was there at what
00:29It's the second fatal hit and run in the very same area, with two others dying after being
00:36run over in April, and it's raising alarms for police.
00:42We have concerns about the antisocial behaviour that occurs there, that we'd be looking into
00:47perhaps trying to get more CCTV coverage of there, perhaps more lighting would help.
00:54Whatever the circumstances, it brings the number of lives lost on empty roads to a 16-year
01:02high, every one of the 56 fatalities taking a toll on families, friends and emergency
01:10service personnel.
01:11It's become really fatiguing for them, as we've sort of said there's been 807 car crashes
01:17just this year, and 107 of those have involved pedestrians.
01:23Fast responders fear people are not following the rules and becoming increasingly distracted
01:29while on the roads.
01:31Mobile phone usage is really bad at the moment, and it takes a lot of time, you're not watching
01:37what you're doing, so you're not alert, and this is causing a lot of the crashes I believe.
01:42As we approach the holiday season, police say they're more visible on the roads, with
01:47more RVs and speed cameras, to stop the already tragic toll from going any higher.