{"id":172113,"date":"2025-02-02T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T02:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172113"},"modified":"2025-02-02T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T02:25:07","slug":"victoria-clocks-deadliest-january-road-toll-in-more-than-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172113","title":{"rendered":"Victoria clocks deadliest January road toll in more than 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than 34 lives were lost on Victorian roads in January, sparking fears of the deadly trend continuing farther into 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of people killed on Victorian Roads is increasing with the unnecessary increase in heavy vehicles on the roads.  Our roads in Victoria have been made far less safe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=171832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Legacy of Ben Carroll\u2019s time at Vicroads massive trucks on our streets\">by policies from Freight Victoria and Ben Carroll<\/a> during his time as roads and road safety minister.  During his tenure larger dangerous heavy vehicles were provided with permits from Vicroads making our roads less safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An additional outcome of this stupid and bankrupt policy again from Labor is the road damage we are all now seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks Vicroads and Freight Victoria for making our roads less safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 34 lives were lost on Victorian roads in January, sparking fears of the deadly trend continuing farther into 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":172114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,7988],"tags":[14388,8634,993,8635,8269,8],"class_list":["post-172113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-trucking","tag-freight-victoria","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-melissa-horne","tag-vicroads","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172116,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172113\/revisions\/172116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}