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There are signs along the route that identify historic points along the gold escort route from the Victorian goldfields to Adelaide, but I have been unable to discover why the gold was taken to Adelaide instead of Melbourne. Any ideas? -- Scott Davis Talk 13:29, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
What value is there to the Major road accidents section? In particular, is there any evidence that collisions on this highway are different to other comparable roads, or external criteria on which particular incidents should be in a short list? -- Scott Davis Talk 20:56, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
To User:ScottDavis: I see you've re-added the sentence I deleted: "The Dukes highway accounts for one third of South Australia's road fatalities,". You've also re-added the reference. It may be due to the paywall, but that link comes up dead for me. It also sounds very unlikely - that would be about 30 fatalities per year on the Dukes' Highway, which frankly sounds unbelievable to me. Are you sure that (a) the link works (and if so, could you paste the text about the 1/3 statistic here), and (b) that the statistic is correct? Adpete ( talk) 23:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
The relevant text of The Advertiser is:
The RAA raised the danger of driving on the highway in its motoring magazine last month.
RAA public affairs general manager Penny Gale said this stretch of highway accounted for a third of all the state's road fatalities.
"Head-on crashes are the main cause of fatalities, so duplicating the road would help reduce the road toll," she said.
— David Nankervis, Two killed after B-double and car collide head-on along Dukes Highway, The Advertiser, March 29, 2013 9:29pm
I think your reference is better, and gives better context to the 1/3rd claim
Almost a third of the 85 deaths on major roads in South Australia occurred on the Dukes Highway, despite comprising just 7 per cent of the state's highway network.
— ABC, Dukes Highway rated SA's deadliest, 20 Jan 2012
Thanks. -- Scott Davis Talk 05:15, 9 January 2017 (UTC)