A few weeks ago, five children under 16 were killed and the 18-year-old driver was injured when a Nissan Navara ploughed into a tree at Buxton, a small village about 100km from Sydney. The Navara was a dual cab ute weighing two tonnes, yet when it hit the tree it split in half then shredded itself into strips of metal that were unrecognisable as car parts. Police told reporters the crash was the worst they have ever seen. There were six in the ute when it crashed and only the driver was wearing a seatbelt. During the driver's subsequent bail application, the prosecutor highlighted two previous suspensions of his licence for speeding in an 18-month period. A week later four children under 16 were hospitalised when their Honda Accord ploughed into a pole in Sydney's Beverly Hills. Two years ago, Veronique Sakr, 11, and her cousins, Sienna Abdallah, eight, and her siblings Angelina, 12, and Antony, 13 were walking on Bettington Rd, Oatlands. It was the first time they had been allowed to walk to buy ice creams by themselves. Samuel Davidson, 29, had spent more than 12 hours drinking and had cocaine and other drugs running around his body when his Mitsubishi Triton Ute mounted the kerb, ploughing into the children and killing them. And what do our governments do? Well not much really. In April this year the NSW Government launched its 2026 Road Safety Action Plan, including "new targets to halve road deaths and reduce serious injuries by 30 per cent by 2030". Of course, the RSAP comes in a glossy 40-page brochure which sets a new standard for saying nothing in what appears to be 40,000 words. The best idea our pollies and their advisers could come up with was the use of more automated stuff to help police in their work. Hard to see mobile speed camera drivers helping out the coppers at Oatlands, Buxton or Beverly Hills. In 2018, the geniuses at Transport for NSW gave Redflex Traffic Systems more than $112m to operate mobile speed cameras. A percentage of the millions of dollars raised by mobile speed camera fines is being paid to the private operator to deliver the program. Easy to see the incentives there. The more you speed the more we make. Orange NSW MP Phil Donato got it right when he said: "There's no deterrence in this covert practice, where drivers receive infringements in the mail up to a month after a speeding offence. The continued use of unmarked mobile speed cameras is a revenue-raising exercise – plain and simple."