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Responsibility for Safer Roads
SaferRoads is
a national project designed to encourage "safer drivers in safer
vehicles on safer roads." Everyone has a role to play.
Road crashes involve sudden loss, untold suffering, and financial
hardship. Each year, they change the lives of tens of thousands of
Australian families forever. Safe personal travel should be a key
feature of a modern society. Working towards safer travel needs to be a
partnership between all road users, road providers, vehicle suppliers
and the community.
Road
users
can use the
road network more responsibly by eliminating the dangers of drink
driving, speeding, failing to wear seatbelts, and driving when tired.
Vehicle
manufacturers and importers can make safer vehicles their main
priority, by improving car design, and encouraging safe driving in the
promotion of their products. Manufacturers can also work with road
authorities to ensure compatibility between vehicle design and road
infrastructure.
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Governments
can pursue ‘best practice’ road safety options, build
safer new roads, make existing roads more forgiving, demand safer
vehicles through fleet purchase, and regulate and enforce vehicle and
driver standards.
Business
can promote and reward safer road use by employees,
suppliers and distributors, demand safer vehicles through fleet
purchase, and use the SaferRoads brand to promote the
SaferRoads
campaign.
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