Perth freeways lead nation for dangerous driving
Perth’s two main arterial freeways are the worst in the nation for dangerous drivers, according to a new study.
The Kwinana Freeway and Mitchell Freeway came in first and second, respectively, on a top-10 list of dangerous roads, with hundreds of incidents bestowing them with a “dangerous driver score” of 75 and 64.
The study for law firm LHD Lawyers, which analysed more than 92,000 reported road crashes across six Australian states and territories in 2023, also saw WA’s Albany Highway round out the top-10 list with 368 incidents and a dangerous driver scores of 33.
There were 858 incidents recorded on the Kwinana Freeway and 753 on the Mitchell Freeway, with speed camera data scraped for the study also contributing to the roads’ high rankings.
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Today’s weather
This week all eyes are on ex-tropical cyclone Narelle which is expected to re-intensify into a cyclone in the coming days in waters off the Kimberley.
For Perth, the week will start out mostly sunny and warm, but we’re expecting showers on Friday and over the weekend.
How much we get all depends on Narelle’s movements down the west coast. At this stage, a range of scenarios are possible.
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Making headlines today is a push from the nation’s peak mining body for the government to get on board with artificial intelligence to slash years of approval wait times.
The Minerals Council of Australia will ask for $13 million in the May federal budget to pilot AI, which it believes will provide a billion-dollar benefit to the economy in the long run by improving regulatory decision-making.
Around 26,000 homes across the country are caught in an approvals backlog, while the peak body for the nation’s miners estimates $51 billion in resources projects are stuck in the pipeline each year due to slow decision-making processes.
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