The new NSW Road Safety Draft Strategy 2012-2021 follows the launch of the National Road Safety Strategy 2011-2020.The Report includes recommendations:
*Develop systems to encourage the uptake of Intelligent Speed Adaptation for motorists.
*Establishment a NSW Community Road Safety fund, into which money raised from red-light, point-to-point and speed cameras will be directed to fund road safety programs.
Research found that almost a quarter of people report that they speed all or most of the time. Annual speed surveys also suggest that broadly eight per cent of drivers exceed the speed limit by more than 10km/h.
Research found that almost a quarter of people report that they speed all or most of the time. Annual speed surveys also suggest that broadly eight per cent of drivers exceed the speed limit by more than 10km/h.
Last year, 368 people died on the state's roads while 6522 were seriously injured. But so far this year, the road toll is already 10 per cent higher than at the same time last year. Speeding, drink driving, fatigue and not wearing seatbelts were the major causes of accidents and deaths on our roads, NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre road safety chair Raphael Grzebieta said.
The strategy hopes to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on the state's roads by at least 30 per cent by 2021
Road safety experts backed the plan to adopt a "safe system" approach to drastically reduce the number of people dying and being seriously injured on the state's roads each year. The George Institute for Global Health injury research director and road safety expert, Professor Rebecca Ivers, supported the new approach and said it took the focus off trying to change the behaviour of individual road users. Read more
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