MPbacks safety bid

POLITICIAN Inga Peulich joined Hampton Park resident Danielle Mullins during the walk for Hallam Road on the weekend to show support for the teenager’s road safety campaign.
Danielle, 17, has voiced her opinions about the need for compulsory driver education and road safety programs in schools since she lost friend Joel Brimble in a fatal collision in late June at the Lynbrook intersection of Ormond and Hallam roads.
“I want something put in schools so youths can understand what it’s like and what they are putting at risk,” she said.
Danielle wrote a letter to her local Member of Parliament expressing her belief about the need to educate young drivers and her concern about the inaction of the government after Casey council’s seven-year-long requests to upgrade the intersection.
Liberal South Eastern Metropolitan region MP Inga Peulich raised Danielle’s issues in State Parliament recently.
“Danielle says that the classes could teach preventative measures to lower the impact of consequences of getting into a car with friends, a hoon driver or drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs,” Ms Peulich said. “Sometimes fairly simple preventative measures can diminish the likelihood of these tragedies occurring.”
Ms Peulich said the Minister for Roads and Ports had 30 days to respond to Danielle’s requests for road safety education programs.