Road & traffic safety
Links
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Camera Locations throughout Victoria (Cameras Save Lives, Department of Justice, Victoria)
Victoria's roads are covered by a network of fixed and mobile road safety cameras. They are located on our most dangerous roads and intersections to prevent speed and red-light offences.
www.camerassavelives.vic.gov.au/home/locations/camera+locations next -
Cameras Save Lives (Department of Justice, Victoria) - home page
The Cameras Save Lives website includes a list of weekly mobile speed cameras and the locations of all Victoria's fixed cameras, including intersection and highway sites across the state.
www.camerassavelives.vic.gov.au next -
Child restraints (VicRoads)
All children under seven years of age must wear a child restraint or booster seat when travelling in a car for improved safety.
www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/SafetyAndRules/RoadRules/ChildRestraintsRules.htm next -
Everybody Hurts (Transport Accident Commission, Victoria) - home page
The personal stories of Luke's family, friends, emergency workers, work colleagues, survivors of the crash, eyewitnesses, and others affected by the tragedy form the basis for the TAC's new road safety campaign - Everybody Hurts.
www.everybodyhurts.com.au next -
Mobile phones and driving (VicRoads)
Using a mobile phone while driving can be distracting. Research shows that using a hand-held or hands-free mobile phone while driving may increase your chance of a crash by as much as four times.
www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/SafetyAndRules/SafetyIssues/MobilePhonesAndDriving.htm next -
Road Safety Camera Commissioner (Victoria) - home page
The Road Safety Camera Commissioner independently monitors the road safety camera system in Victoria, undertaking quality assurance, reviewing complaints, and investigating issues related to the camera system integrity, accuracy or efficiency.
www.cameracommissioner.vic.gov.au next -
Road safety campaigns (Transport Accident Commission, Victoria)
Lists current road safety campaigns to address the problem of lives being lost and serious injuries on Victoria's roads.
www.tacsafety.com.au/campaigns/overview next -
Road safety education Victoria (VicRoads) - home page
The aim of Victorian road safety education is to reduce the risk of injury and death to children and young people from road trauma and to lay the foundations for safe road use throughout life.
www.roadsafetyeducation.vic.gov.au next -
Road Safety Victoria - home page
This site provides all types of road users - drivers, motorcyclists, cyclists, pedestrians, heavy vehicle drivers - with information, including the latest research, events and campaign updates, as well as provides practical advice on how we can all work to help stop the senseless loss of lives on Victoria's roads.
www.roadsafety.vic.gov.au next -
Roads & safety (VicRoads)
Improving and building safer roads is one of the keys to reducing crashes and the Blackspot Program and Safer Roads Program are examples of how this is being done in Victoria.
www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/SafetyAndRules/SaferRoads next