{"id":5773,"date":"2023-08-07T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:58:20","slug":"media-professor-kieran-tranter-indigenous-pedestrian-and-road-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2023\/08\/07\/media-professor-kieran-tranter-indigenous-pedestrian-and-road-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Professor Kieran Tranter – Indigenous pedestrian and road deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

“P<\/span>edestrians<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>are<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>five<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>times<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>more<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>likely<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>die<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>on<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>roads<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>NT<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>than<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>other<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>states and territories, and <\/span>87%<\/span> of pedestrians killed in the NT since 2012 were Indigenous.”<\/span><\/p>\n

QUT Centre for Justice member Professor Kieran Tranter, provided media commentary around these statistics last week.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Tranter’s <\/span>research<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>has<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>focused<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>on<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>how<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>reduce<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>NT’s<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>high<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>rate<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Indigenous<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>pedestrian<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Issues of speed, intoxication and not stopping are particularly prevalent, and clearly we need to address driver behaviour in relation to those three.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Tranter said his research found a key way of reducing deaths was ensuring there are more ways for people to either catch public transport\u00a0or to be transported\u00a0home if they are heavily intoxicated.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We need to look at programs and opportunities to enhance safe transport options for First Nations people so they’re not walking on the side of the road,” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Where there are some very high-risk roads, reducing speed limits could be one solution, greater police presence policing those roads could be another, and greater education [for] drivers.<\/em><\/p>\n

“There aren’t enough First Nations patrols to help those people get home or to a safe place.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more here:<\/p>\n

Listen to ABC Radio Darwin<\/a><\/p>\n

ABC Online<\/a><\/p>\n

ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n

ABC Radio Canberra<\/a><\/p>\n

Radio National<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Kieran Tranter is the Chair of Law, Technology and Future in the School of Law. He is the founding General Editor of Law, Technology and Humans<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>He is coordinator of the Datafication and Automation of Human Life Stream in the School of Law and co-lead of the Technologies of Justice stream in QUT Centre for Justice. Kieran researches law, technology and the future.\u00a0 \u00a0Kieran is also a member of The Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety \u2013 Queensland (CARRS-Q).\u00a0 CARRS-Q was established in 1996 as a joint venture initiative of the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Queensland University of Technology (QUT)<\/a>\u00a0to address the enormous human, economic and social costs resulting from road crashes.<\/p>\n

Read more about Kieran here<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Pedestrians\u00a0are\u00a0five\u00a0times\u00a0more\u00a0likely\u00a0to\u00a0die\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0roads\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0NT\u00a0than\u00a0in\u00a0other\u00a0states and territories, and 87% of pedestrians killed in the NT since 2012 were Indigenous.” QUT Centre for Justice member Professor Kieran Tranter, provided media commentary around these statistics last week.\u00a0 Professor Tranter’s research\u00a0has\u00a0focused\u00a0on\u00a0how\u00a0to\u00a0reduce\u00a0the\u00a0NT’s\u00a0high\u00a0rate\u00a0of\u00a0Indigenous\u00a0pedestrian\u00a0deaths. “Issues of speed, intoxication and not stopping are particularly prevalent, and clearly we need to address driver behaviour in relation to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":5774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}