In answer to a growing road toll, the cost of crashes and widespread community concern, the TAC and its partners actively campaign to prevent serious injury and loss of life on Victoria's roads.
Young Drivers
Young drivers are four times more likely to be involved in a fatal or serious crash than more experienced drivers.
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Talk the Toll Down
The TAC joins with regional newspapers to spread the road safety message by encouraging people to talk the road toll down.
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In a united approach, Victoria Police, VicRoads and the TAC partner to tackle road safety by:
- providing resources to target speeding and drink-driving
- creating high profile, hard hitting mass media campaigns
- focussing on drink-driving, speeding, fatigue and young drivers
- providing public education programs to support police enforcement
- conducting road safety research
The TAC takes a hard-hitting approach by addressing the key causes of road accidents - the attitudes and behaviours of road users. Since 1989 the TAC has focussed on a range of road safety issues including the inexperience of young drivers, fatigue, drug driving, motorcycle safety, distractions and vehicle safety along with the ongoing target of speeding and drink driving.
The key approach of the TAC is to:
- place key safety issues in the public agenda
- show people "this could happen to me" through emotive and realistic road crash scenarios and their consequences
- show new enforcement technologies and
- reinforce the reality of the increased risk of detection.
If you drink and drive, the party's over. With the Christmas season now upon us, it is a time of celebration and end of year festivities - if you are going to drink, then arrange another way to get home. Make your Christmas, and everyone else's, a safe one. See our road safety campaign page for more information.