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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Jasper Lindell

Blake's Legacy: ACT wants to make doctors report unfit drivers with new laws

Transport Minister Chris Steel, who has announced the government would pursue laws to force medical practitioners to report potentially dangerous drivers. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Medical practitioners would be required to report patients with conditions that could affect their ability to drive to licensing authorities under changes being considered by the ACT government.

Transport Minister Chris Steel told the Legislative Assembly the government would propose new legislation in response to the findings from the coronial inquest into the death of Blake Corney, a four-year-old who was killed in an major rear-end collision on the Monaro Highway in July 2018.

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