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Police have repeated a warning to south-west pedestrians after another walker on their mobile phone was involved in a vehicle collision.
Mid last month the new police south-west road safety adviser Senior Sergeant Matt Wheeler said three serious collisions involving pedestrians was alarming.
He said the most recent collision happened at the intersection of Raglan Parade and Hopetoun Road at 6.10pm on June 30.
"Fortunately the pedestrian was not seriously injured," he said.
"The young person was walking west on Raglan Parade and it was dark.
"They were crossing Hopetoun Road at the intersection when they were involved in a collision with a vehicle.
"The young person was not seriously injured. They were looking at their mobile phone at the time of the collision."
Senior Sergeant Wheeler repeated his earlier warning - saying people needed to be mindful of what's going on around them when they were walking.
"The message is similar to those driving a car. Concentrate because a pedestrian involved in a collision with a vehicle is always going to come off second best," he said.
On Friday June 4 at 5.45pm, a Warrnambool woman was killed when she stepped out onto Banyan Street from between two parked cars and was involved in a collision with a vehicle heading south.
She died at the collision scene. She was not using her mobile phone at the time.
That accident will be reviewed and it is expected that speed limits on north-south arterial roads including Cramer Street, Liebig/Howard Street and Banyan Street will all be looked at by police in coordination with VicRoads and the Warrnambool City Council.
Those roads are currently all 60km/h.
Senior Sergeant Matt Wheeler said there had also been separate serious injury collisions involving pedestrians in Hamilton and Warrnambool, one involving someone else using their mobile phone.
Earlier: Pedestrians are being urged to beware of traffic after a woman was killed in a collision and two people seriously injured in separate accidents.
New police south-west road safety adviser Senior Sergeant Matt Wheeler said three serious collisions involving pedestrians was alarming.
On Friday June 4 at 5.45pm, a Warrnambool woman was killed when she stepped out onto Banyan Street from between two parked cars and was involved in a collision with a vehicle heading south.
She died at the collision scene.
That accident will be reviewed and it is expected that speed limits on north-south arterial roads including Cramer Street, Liebig/Howard Street and Banyan Street will all be looked at by police in coordination with VicRoads and the Warrnambool City Council.
Those roads are currently all 60km/h.
Senior Sergeant Matt Wheeler said there had also been separate serious injury collisions involving pedestrians in Hamilton and Warrnambool, one involving someone using their mobile phone.
"We would request that pedestrians always be mindful of traffic," he said.
"It's an offence to drive using a mobile telephone but it's not for pedestrians.
"But that doesn't mean it's not dangerous for pedestrians to be using their phone while crossing a road."
The new road safety adviser said the other thing that stood out to him was the number of heavy vehicles involved in rollovers during the past few weeks.
He said police would consider launching a trucks blitz to ensure all heavy vehicles were being operated in line with current road laws.
"The most urgent message I wanted to get out was about pedestrians," Senior Sergeant Wheeler said.
"We need people to concentrate on what's going on around them at all times when walking on or crossing the road."
The road safety adviser warned heavy vehicle operators that they could expect their speed and log books to be checked and to undergo alcohol and drug tests.
There have been a number of fatal accidents across the south-west in the past couple of weeks.
Last Thursday a 50-year-old Gorae woman died in a collision with a tree north of Portland, on Wednesday a 20-year-old Simpson woman is believed to have been swept away in flood waters while driving to work and that followed the death the previous week of an elderly woman pedestrian in Warrnambool on the Friday night after a motorcycle rider in his 60s was killed near Allansford in a collision with a turning vehicle.
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