ROSPA’s promotes three pillars of rural road safety on the Buloke Shire Council.
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North-West Victoria football podcast – ‘The Paddock The Goals’, April 24, 2023
A woman is lucky to be alive after a “catastrophic” rollover two years ago that killed her dog and saw her ejected through the sun roof.
Three drink-drivers were picked up by south-west police at the weekend – two were after being involved in serious single-vehicle collisions.
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The Andrews Labor Government is giving more community groups across Victoria the chance to receive grants to address local rood safety issues, and to encourage groups to apply for the funding as part of the $1.5 million Community Rood Safety Grants Program 2023/24.
Victoria Police has pleaded with motorists to take care on regional roads following a massive spike in lives lost on rural roads this year, but the Opposition has slammed the Victorian Government for the state of regional roads.
Two people were taken to hospital after a car struck a tree and rolled on Watt Rd just after midnight on Monday, February 13.
Five people have lost their lives on the region’s roads in the first six weeks of 2023.
Junior cricketers are calling on motorists across the region to ‘stay connected’ to save lives.
South-west drivers are being urged to take care on the roads after five serious collisions in nine days – including three fatalities.
Two Junior members of the Donald and Jeffcott clubs in front of ROSPA banners, holding ’STAY CONNECTED’ Seat Belt stickers for car windows and rear of vehicles.
Police are investigating whether speed and or alcohol were contributing factors in two vehicles being written-off during a collision on Friday night.
A truck driver has faced court charged with 46 offences in relation to a crash that left dozens of students and staff in hospital last year.
For the Calendar year in Victoria to midnight 22 January 2023
2O22 – Lives lost 18
2O23 – Lives lost 24 (up 33.3 %)
Here are figures of Fatalities (equivalent periods), Gender, Road user, Location, Age Group and Level of Urbanisation.
Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following a quadruple fatality in Pine Lodge early this month.
A man has died in the second fatal crash in the remote Victorian shire of Buloke in less than 24 hours.
DRINK-DRIVERS were responsible for more than half of the region’s fatal crashes in what was a heart-breaking 2022 for the south-west, a police sergeant says.
A not-for-profit road safety organisation is calling for the Victorian government to invest more in educating young people about safe driving.
Emergency services and members of the public were faced with a “devastating and confronting” scene at Pine Lodge where four people were killed after three of them were ejected from a car on Wednesday.
A passenger in a car that crashed into a power pole at Beechworth thought he was going to die as the incident unfolded.
Horrific accidents, split-second misjudgements, poor weather, driver inexperience and rash decisions to get behind the wheel or to keep going have all seen Australia’s road toll reach its highest level in five years, leaving hundreds of families grieving for lost loved ones.
The New South Wales road death toll has risen from 2021’s historic low to 288 people in 2022, compared to 275 the year before.
Three people including two children have been taken to hospital for observation following a two-vehicle collision on Sunday afternoon along High Street Golden Square near the intersection with Oak Street.
Almost 500 road closures could put a dampener on holiday plans!
Melbourne driver of four-wheel-drive stranded overnight on tracks near Halls Gap.
A middle-aged drunk woman on her way to buy chickens has been found slumped over a car steering wheel beside the Princes Highway at almost three times the alcohol limit.
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A wayward vehicle has taken out a light pole during a crash in Wodonga.
A man has been taken to hospital after a crash in Smeaton, which resulted in damage to the front of the town’s historic Cumberland Hotel.
Police have urged driver caution in the lead up to the holiday season after attending multiple incidents in 12 hours across the region.
The 34-year-old man recorded a blood alcohol reading of .291 following the collision on Raglan Parade in November last year.
Rural Councils Victoria is calling for a dedicated rural “Build Back Better” fund in the wake of the ongoing floods crisis across the state.
While one expert has said the answer to the region’s crumbling road network is to have an overhaul of VicRoad.
Police judged Lavington woman was clearly intoxicated before they made their arrest
A massive “sinkhole” on Bells Flat Road at Yackandandah was a potential deathtrap with some reckless drivers narrowly avoiding toppling over the edge before barricades were erected, residents say.
“The most seriously injured student, who suffered a severe leg injury, has already been through three surgeries at the Royal Children’s Hospital with more to come.”
A large pothole on a busy North East highway caused drivers grief across the weekend.
We displayed our 3 ROAD SAFETY AWARENESS pop-up posters
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A ‘BELT UP AND Live’ poster and a ‘STAY CONNECTED’ rear window car sticker and the rear of trucks, vans or utilities has been announced by ROSPA – Road Safety Promotion Australia.
Ballarat has shown its true colours in the face of the massive trauma following a Western Freeway bus crash that hospitalised dozens of Loreto College
We take them for granted today, but 50 years ago the introduction of seat belts ruffled feathers.
New data has revealed almost one in four Victorians killed on the state’s roads in 2021 were not wearing seatbelts, the highest figure in almost a decade.
Young Victorian rural drivers highlight improved roads – addressing reckless driving and increasing road safety education as the answer to rural and regional road trauma reductions in a pilot survey.
Drivers are disproportionately dying on regional roads in Victoria and RoSPA is partnering with Deakin Warrnambool to turn the tide on this devastating trend.
Road Safety Promotion Australia (RoSPA) has collaborated with students from Deakin University to find a new approach to reduce road trauma.
Barwon Health has produced a short film highlighting the impact that road trauma has on its victims, their families, and emergency workers.