Road toll: new study reveals a simple fix

SAFETY researchers say there’s a simple way to cut the road toll: encourage people to trade in their old bangers.

Research commissioned by the Australian Automobile Association says reducing the average age of the Australian car park could save thousands of lives.

Cutting the average age of the national passenger car fleet by just a single year, from its current level of just below 10 years, would prevent more than 1300 deaths over the next 20 years.

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