RACT chief advocacy officer, Garry Bailey, said the submission into a Legislative Council road safety inquiry was being made on behalf of its members, but feedback was being sought from all members of the community.

He said the inquiry into road safety was a watershed moment for Tasmania with 6.6 deaths per 100,000 people.

"We have the worst road safety record of any state in Australia. It's almost twice as bad as Victoria," he said.

"Victoria was so concerned two-years-ago, they had their own inquiry, even though their rate is just over three deaths per 100,000 people.

Mr Bailey said road accidents and collisions made up much of the existing data, but did not account for the full picture when it came to road safety which prompted the public request.

"We'd need to hear from people about their personal experience in road safety," he said.

"One of the things, of course, we can never record near misses, we've done a little bit of work on this and it is frightening the number of people who have experienced near misses, in other words, a split second away from disaster."

Mr Bailey said the consultation process would also allow people to identify which roads they felt were most unsafe, provide suggestions and possible solutions.

"If there is no change and we keep on the same path, 175 Tasmanians will die on our roads in the next five years and 1500 people will be seriously injured," he said.

Infrastructure and Transport Minister Michael Ferguson said the state government was delivering better and safer roads after announcing upgrades to four priority roads along the West Tamar Highway on Monday.

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He said the upgrades along the highway would include overtaking lanes, intersection improvements, widening roads, installing concrete footpaths and improving sightlines.

Mr Bailey said the state needed to raise the standard of its highways to a three-star AusRAP safety rating to improve driver safety on Tasmanian roads.

"A three-star highway will have, for example, wire-rope barriers down the middle and on the sides, it will have ripple strips so if you get fatigued you run across them and you'll be alerted to the fact you're deviating from the road. Decent signage, what's called grade separation at intersections so they're much safer," he said.

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"Certainly passing lanes, probably every six to seven kilometres."

He said the Midland Highway - the site of a double fatality last week - was one of the most advanced stretches of road in the North and an example of the type of infrastructure future upgrades should include.

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