Every time I hear some moronic ad from TMR or the police service on about every kilometre over being a killer or to "back it up" at the first sign of water over a road, my blood boils.

The fact that so much money is diverted toward ads and not driver training and improving roads in our state is criminal.
Looking at the reality, speed as a factor (not speeding) accounts for about 30 per cent of deaths on our roads and driving through water is not recorded, it is so low. I doubt doing 64 in a 60 zone is highly dangerous.
The sheer lack of driver training opportunities is shocking. The nearest large centre is at Gympie, and once again North Queensland, with our high proportion of poor and gravel roads, gets nothing. We cast our teens out on the road with no skid-pan experience or real world loss of control memories at all.

Nobody talks about walking a ford before crossing, so the waters's depth and strength can be checked, as well as road conditions under the water. Few learn about how to create and maintain a bow wave. So most that do attempt a water crossing are much more likely to fail. And let's not forget, if the roads like Foxton and Bushy Creek were built properly, fording would not be needed anyway.
Cape Tribulation Road is shocking, with most of the surface very slippery and rough; in need of replenishment, ideally with hotmix. There are many, many mid-corner bumps and depressions, and failing edges; really it is a miracle that there are not more accidents. There was recently a welcome announcement about funding for resurfacing Alexandra Range, but no info as to whether it was tar and chip or hotmix, and if it is the former most will be gone in the first three months.
Douglas Shire Council has been aware of dangers at Noah Creek Dip and Fan Palm Farm dip for 30 and 10 years respectively and has no intention of fixing either.
I reported a depression in a bad spot to Council weeks ago, and save for the automated one, received no reply and the pothole crew said they would not be doing it anytime soon in a roadside chat. So I guess we keep crossing double lines to avoid it, or if there are oncoming cars, just smash our vehicles up a bit more?
Further south TMR is no better. There is a lovely white circle around a similar depression north of the resort/barra farm turnoff, I stupidly assumed that was a repair mark, but I think now it is simply a mark about where the secret tunnel to the centre of the earth begins. In the short widened section before north Mossman, the compacted road base was dug up to add culverts during construction, and for a new bit of road it is as rough as guts.