Urgent plea ahead of Easter
Trauma specialists from The Alfred are issuing an urgent plea to road users ahead of what is traditionally one of their busiest periods.
A staggering 40 per cent of The Alfred’s Emergency and Trauma Centre admissions are related to road trauma across the four-day Easter period of Good Friday.
Trauma consultant Dr Michael Noonan said the spike in admissions appears to be climbing each Easter at an alarming rate.
“Our road trauma admission numbers over Easter are actually astronomically high in terms of what we’d normally see.”
“Over the past two Easter we’ve had 18 motorcyclists admitted over just that four-day period, that’s up from a total of six from the previous two.
“There’s also been a spike in injuries relating to cars, with 17 people admitted across the past two Eater periods – up from 10 from the previous two years.”
Pedestrian injuries have also more than doubled.
Dr Noonan said it was a horrific situation that plays out each year.
“There tends to be the same message that goes out each year, but unfortunately what we see here in the Emergency and Trauma Centre also stays the same,” he said.
"This Easter please be extra cautious on the roads - it only take a momentary lapse of judgment to change your life forever.
“We constantly see people who have gotten up in the morning, gone to go about their day and through their own bad choices, or those of others, they end up spending Easter in a hospital bed with life-altering injuries.
“Unfortunately, in some instances there’s nothing we can do and those people never end up going home to their families.”
