Top traffic cop Doug Fryer discusses his plan for country roads

The state’s top traffic cop wants to slash speed limits to 70km/h on all unsealed country roads.

“I just can’t reconcile (dirt roads) need the same speed limit as the Eastern Freeway,” Doug Fryer told Neil Mitchell.

“If you have a head-on at 100km/h you have 90 per cent chance of death.

“If you have a head-on at 70km/h you have a 10 per cent chance of death.

“So I just ask everyone to do the maths.”

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