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“At the same time it gives us a high visibility presence on the roads. “So while we will be targeting drug-driving, at the same time we will be doing drink-driving tests and anything else we happen to find when we pull cars over.” Snr Sgt English said following the highest number of deaths on Queensland roads in the past decade last year, fatalities were almost double what they were at the same time in 2020. “The road toll is double what we were this time last year,” he said. There had been 43 fatalities on the state’s roads at February 25, compared to 20 last year. ....
The high number of road deaths has increased in a shockingly tragic start to 2021, with 39 people dead from 35 fatal crashes in the state so far this year. Both figures are a huge increase on this time last year, with 17 more fatal crashes and 20 more deaths as of last Sunday. Queensland was the only state to record an increase in road deaths for 2020 with a toll of 267, 57 more than in 2019. 89 people died inside the Central police region last year, a span that includes Gympie, the Sunshine Coast and the Fraser Coast. Officer in Charge of the Wide Bay Burnett District Road Policing Unit Sergeant Chris Watson said there were three more fatalities attended by the Gympie Patrol Group last year than there were in 2019. ....