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Rachael Ward

Hopes lives will be saved as secret crash data revealed

Talks over $50 billion in road funding will be used to compel all jurisdictions to share crash data. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Forcing states and territories to reveal secretive road crash data will clip the wings of politicians tempted to pour money into marginal electorates instead of projects that save lives.

That's according to the Australian Automobile Association, which has welcomed a federal government push to force all states and territories to be transparent about road data or risk losing billions of dollars in commonwealth funding.

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