00:00A confronting scene.
00:04This 40-year-old driver killed when his car collided with a truck towing three trailers.
00:10His death, one of five, on WA's roads over 24 hours.
00:15There's five people that won't be at Christmas this year
00:18and five doors that had to be knocked on by our officers in the WA police force
00:22to make those absolutely tragic notifications.
00:27On Thursday afternoon, a 70-year-old man died in the south-west
00:31when his motorcycle collided with a tow truck.
00:34The next morning, it was the 40-year-old man in Perth's outer north.
00:38Half an hour later, a 51-year-old pedestrian was hit and killed by a car in Mundaring.
00:44Four hours later, a man died when his four-wheel drive struck a tree in Serpentine.
00:50Another four hours later, and it was a 64-year-old woman,
00:54a passenger in a single-vehicle crash in Alfred Cove.
00:57We're halfway through the year. We're over a hundred deaths.
01:02And that's the highest in almost a decade.
01:05The number of road safety deaths so far this year is the highest in at least a decade,
01:11sitting at 103 compared to 93 this time last year.
01:15When taking into account population growth, the Road Safety Commissioner says over the past ten or so years,
01:22the annual road toll in every jurisdiction in Australia has remained relatively steady.
01:28The road toll's plateaued. It's flattened.
01:31We're keeping a lid on things, but we're not shifting it down.
01:34And there aren't big levers left.
01:37Authorities hopeful new cameras capturing a range of illegal activity will help turn the tide when fines,
01:45rather than warnings, are issued later this year.
01:48When we move into enforcement mode with these new cameras in a couple of months,
01:52we're expecting a big shift in behaviour.
01:54We don't want the money.
01:56We want people to change their behaviour and save lives.
01:59A wake-up call for anyone getting behind the wheel.
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