Road Safety Partnerships
Every road safety partnership helps to achieve the goal of reducing road deaths to zero by 2050.
Within our Road Safety Partnerships, there are four important areas of focus and each partnership will link to one or more of these areas.
Every partnership links to one or more of these areas.
Road Safety Impact Area | Shared responsibility | Country Victorians | Unprotected Road Users | Young People |
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Victorian Community | Regional and Rural Victorians | Cyclists, motorcyclists or pedestrians | Aged 16 to 25 | |
Aim | To help Victorians recognise that they have a role in keeping themselves and others safe on the roads. | To educate Victorians outside the metro areas about road safety issues that affect them most in regional and rural areas and how a Safe System approach will help to save lives and reduce injuries. | To give the least protected Victorians the information that can help them stay safe and avoid injury. | To give young people the information and tools to help themselves and their friends stay safe. |
Measure of success | Influential leaders and organisations are champions of change | Influential leaders and organisations are champions of change | Influential leaders and organisations are champions of change | Influential leaders and organisations are champions of change |
Victorians have new insights and improved attitudes to actions that will move the state towards zero road trauma | Behaviour change locally | The TAC has been able to influence individuals to take specific actions e.g. protective clothing, ABS, phone and music use while using the road network | Behaviour change within the age group of 16 to 25 years |
Shared Responsibility
We ask for every organisation, every business and every person – the whole Victorian community to take responsibility for road safety. It is only by working together that the Victorian community will be able to reduce road trauma.
The TAC and its government partners can only do so much to help move Victoria towards achieving the goal of zero road deaths and serious injuries on the roads. They can provide infrastructure, legislation and enforcement, but alone, they will never achieve zero. Industry must contribute by providing the safest possible vehicles, while every road user needs to take responsibility for their own safety and that of others.
Country Victorians
Death rates on country roads are four times higher than on metropolitan roads and nearly half of all road fatalities in Victoria happen on 100km/h and 110km/h rural roads. Two out of three people killed or seriously injured on country roads are country people.
Unprotected Road Users
Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists are the most vulnerable road users. They suffer the most severe consequences in collisions because they cannot protect themselves against the speed and mass of vehicles.
Young People
Young drivers are one of the highest risk groups on our roads and night time is when half their crashes happen. A quarter of all fatalities on Victoria’s roads involve young drivers. That’s around 55 people killed and another 1,245 seriously injured each year in crashes where the driver of the vehicle is under 25. Inexperience, lifestyle factors, risk-taking, and the use of older cars with fewer safety features make young people far more vulnerable to crashes and injury.