SUVs, known to particularly affect vulnerable road users such as cyclists, made up more than 50% of vehicles sold in Australia last year
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A levy charged to people who drive large SUVs in the city has been mooted as a possible way to curb Victoria’s “skyrocketing” road deaths since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Road safety experts this week told the Victorian government’s inquiry into road safety for vulnerable road users that fatal accidents had risen amid the “many and lingering” changes to road travel behaviour wrought by the pandemic.
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