NT: Grog bans may be to blame for crash which killed 6 people

AAP General News (Australia)
12-11-2007
NT: Grog bans may be to blame for crash which killed 6 people

A youth worker says alcohol restrictions in Alice Springs could be to blame for a car
accident .. in which six people died following a police chase.

The remote Aboriginal community of Hermannsburg .. 120 kilometres west of Alice Springs
.. has begun traditional sorry business for the two women and four men killed on Friday
night.

The 31-year-old male driver remains in hospital.

BLAIR MCFARLAND from the Central Australian Youth Link-Up Services says booze camps
have been set up outside the town's border .. following a ban on public drinking in August.

Mr MCFARLAND says many people now buy grog and leave town with it .. because they can't
drink in public places.

He says he believes the reason the car didn't stop .. was because of these restrictions.







Mr MCFARLAND says people might think grog restrictions are working because the problem's
less visible and the streets of Alice Springs are quieter.

But he says the drinking's still happening in the same volumes .. in different places.

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KEYWORD: TOLL NT (DARWIN)

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