As a clinician, surgeon and the director of the trauma service at Canberra Health Services, her voice is rarely heard but is one which ACT police believe helps elevate the message about how car crashes affect the lives of the victims and their families.

The next six months will see an intensified focus on speeding by police in the ACT, while pushing out social media messaging around the theme of "who are you rushing to meet?".

As COVID restrictions ease and more drivers return to the roads, police, clinicians, paramedics, fire and rescue and funeral directors have collaborated on messaging about speeding, an issue which has risen significantly while Canberra's roads have been less trafficked and most people have been working from home during the pandemic.

This week the ACT registered its sixth road death, that of a 16-year-old girl who was the front seat passenger in a Nissan Navara which hit a tree in Wanniassa early on Saturday morning.

Around 24 hours later, the young girl succumbed to the severe injuries she suffered in that crash during wet and challenging driving conditions over the weekend.

Her death brought the ACT toll to the same level as the full calendar year of 2019, with nearly two months remaining and the busy Christmas-New Year road travel period ahead.

But while the road toll number is registered, what goes unseen - except by the emergency workers - is the equally high level of road trauma.

"Each year we know we will see trauma patients because of speeding," Dr Fitzgerald said.

"We know with higher speeds, patients suffer from more serious injuries and suffer sometimes long-term debilitating injuries, or permanent disability and death.

"We hear about the road toll and we think of the families that are left behind.

"One of the things we often don't hear so much about, the general public, is the number of families that have had their lives changed forever because of disability and injury.

"So you might not lose your life but equally you might have a loved one have to care for you forever, and that's life-changing, that's equally as devastating."

Bill Cole has been a funeral director in Canberra for 33 years and for 21 years of that he's run the coronial service for the police, picking up the dead bodies from the road and elsewhere.

He's seen some confronting roadside scenes during that time, including burnt and dismembered bodies. It's an awful but necessary role, and involves scenes that he'd rather forget but can't.

Those in his role as known as the "last responders".

"We get there after the first responders have finished what they need to do, the scene has been cleared; there's almost an eerie quietness about it," he said.

"We take the [dead] person to the forensic medical centre where identification is often done by families.

"When you look on back why they [the families] are there, why we've been there, it's because something that could have been avoided has happened; a little bit too fast, a little bit too much to drink, maybe a drug, maybe a combination of all these things.

"It never ceases to amaze me that people keep behaving the way they do [on the road] when these things could have been avoided."

Although most types of reported crime have plummeted in Canberra during the COVID-19 pandemic, some types of traffic infringements have gone against the trend.

Police have issued 3007 speeding fines in the ACT since March but what has been notable is that high range speeding offences have gone up, indicating an attitude that the ACT's head of road policing, Detective Inspector Marcus Boorman, describes as drivers "treating the empty roads like their personal racetrack".

"It's completely unacceptable and as we now move toward that Christmas holiday period, we will be putting as much police resources as we can out there, to address this problem," Inspector Boorman said.