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Crashon wayto courtA TEENAGE motoristwas on his way to a Dar-win court to face drink-driving charges when helost control of his car andkilled a 14-year-old pass-enger, a court heardyesterday.

Justin James Salzgeber,19, will likely plead guiltyin the Supreme Courtnext month to drivingcausing death.

Crown prosecutor PaulUsher told Darwin Magis-trates Court that MrSalzgeber was drivingwith five family memberson April 14 when he hit atraffic island, causing thecar to roll.

He said Marcus AndrewLee McGregor, of Ade-laide River — who wasnot wearing a seatbelt —died when the car landedon him.

Acting Sergeant DavidWigglesworth told thecourt Mr Salzgeber wouldhave been travelling atmore than 180km/h whenhe lost control on TempleTce in Palmerston — a60km/h zone.

Defence lawyer JoshBrock asked the officer ifhis speed calculation re-port was an estimate andif variables — such asroad conditions and tyretraction — could have ledto errors. But Acting SgtWigglesworth said it wasnot an estimate but the‘‘most favourable’’ speedfor the defendant.

‘‘It was the minimum,’’he said.

Mr Usher said two pass-engers in the car recalledseeing the speedometer atabout 240km/h before thecrash.

He said Mr Salzgeberhad returned a blood al-cohol reading of 0.211 percent — more than fourtimes the legal limit.

Police toride forthe fallen

NT Police Senior Constable Andrew Jamieson (front), Senior Constable 1st Class Amee Meredith, Sergeant Owen Blackwell,Senior Constable Michael Wyatt and Constable 1st Class Clint Richardson will take part in a motorcycle ride from Darwin toCanberra as part of Police Remembrance Day Picture: FIONA MORRISON

SERGEANT Owen Blackwellwill never forget his mateJason Lindsay .

A photo of the fallen policeofficer is on his desk at theDarwin offices of the NTPolice Association.

The bush policeman whodrowned in a waterhole inArnhem Land 10 years ago isone of 53 police memberswho have died while servingin the Territory.

Next month their col-leagues in khaki will travel14,000km in tribute to thosewho have died on duty.

Sgt Blackwell will lead theteam on the trip from the Pol-ice Remembrance Wall onThe Esplanade, Darwin city,to the National Police Mem-orial in Canberra.

‘‘ The whole idea is gettingtogether with friends to re-member them,’’ Sgt Black-well said.

Sgt Blackwell said the Wallto Wall Ride was also aboutraising money and aware-ness for Police Legacy — anorganisation that providesfinancial and other supportto the families of memberswho have died.

Sgt Blackwell said theywere looking for a local carcompany to sponsor a sup-port vehicle for the motor-cyclists on their ride.

Dieselfuel taxreprieveBy ALYSSA BETTS

CATTLEMEN and those in the pas-toral industry knocked for six bythe temporary export ban may beexempt from cuts in the diesel fueltax rebate.

The issue was discussed duringthe Council of Australian Govern-ments meeting yesterday, whichwas attended by Chief MinisterPaul Henderson.

Mr Henderson said the final de-tails were yet to be worked out butwelcomed the move.

‘‘I’ve . . . been reassured by thePrime Minister today that partic-ular people operating pastoralleases will still be able to claim thediesel fuel tax rebate, so that willcome as really good news for ourpastoralists that are still strugglingwith the impact of the temporarysuspension of the live cattle trade,’’he said yesterday.

The rebate — available to thosesectors such as pastoral and truck-ing — is set to be halved next year,and then abolished in 2014.

Meanwhile, help may also be athand for the nation’s strugglingmental health services.

Mental health expert PatrickMcGorry was invited to make a pre-

sentation at the high-level pow-wow.

He told the Prime Minister, statepremiers and territory chief minis-ters that Australian mental healthservices were in urgent need of atransformation.

Professor McGorry wants a nat-ional approach, with vastly in-creased funding at both state andfederal levels, and a 10-year roadmap to keep the momentum going.

He told the NT News about 7 percent of the total health budget wasspent on mental health. This neededto be 14 per cent.

He said even with the FederalGovernment’s promise of an extra$1.5 billion over five years, it wouldonly bump the mental health sliceto 8 per cent.

The suicide rate in the NT is fourtimes that of the national average.

Mr Henderson said the COAGleaders agreed to develop the10-year plan, with specific referenceto indigenous mental health.

But he said the NT Parliamentwas already ‘‘ahead of the debate’’.

‘‘Parliament this week has justagreed to establish a select commit-tee for the next six months to look atthe high rates of youth suicide inthe NT,’’ he said.

Request forinquestdismissedAN NT court has dis-missed an application bytwo widows for an inquestto be held into the deathsof their husbands whowere found burnt at a re-mote camp.

Sivhong Taing and Si-mach Nuon took the NTCoroner to the SupremeCourt to request a coroni-al inquest be held intotheir husband’s deaths attheir remote King AshBay camp — 950km south-east of Darwin.

Justice Jenny Block-land heard that self-employed crabbers YongAng and Tong Hak werefound ‘‘severely burnt’’ atthe camp in November2007, but the Deputy Cor-oner decided not to holdan inquest into the deathslast year.

Justice Blockland saidthe application was dis-missed because it was‘‘highly unlikely’’ any fur-ther evidence on themen’s cause of deathwould come to light.