Behind the SLOMO law

The Road Safety Commission has taken a look behind Western Australia’s new slow down, move over law.

The Commission’s Assistant Director Strategy Melissa Watts, who chaired the Emergency and Breakdown Vehicle Working Group explains the need to protect roadside emergency workers in WA.

In December 2013, a female tow truck driver was struck and killed while attending to a broken down vehicle on Roe Highway, while another incident in February 2016 left a roadside emergency worker was seriously injured.

Ms Watts said those incidents and other near-misses reported by emergency and incident response workers attending roadside emergencies were the catalyst for the new SLOMO Law.

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