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Towards Zero: Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020

Working towards a safer road transport system where fatalities and serious injuries are minimized. The strategy focuses on safe road use, roads, speeds, and vehicles to enhance overall safety and reduce road trauma impact. Priorities include urban intersections, run-off-road crashes, speeding reduction, impaired driving prevention, and enhancing occupant protection. The long-term vision is to create a forgiving road system with fewer crashes through shared responsibility. Implementation aims to save lives and reduce financial and emotional costs.

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Towards Zero: Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020

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  1. WORKPLACE ROAD SAFETY TOWARDS ZERO THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ROAD SAFETY STRATEGY 2008-2020 2013

  2. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 TOWARDS ZERO • The Western Australia Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 • The long term vision is of a road transport system where crashes resulting in death and serious injury are virtually eliminated

  3. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 THE SAFE SYSTEM • Central to the Safe System is an acknowledgement of our limited ability as humans to tolerate physical force • Safe System guiding principles: • need to cater for mistakes • humans are vulnerable to physical force • shared responsibility • forgiving road system • reduced traffic volume leads to fewer crashes

  4. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 • OUR PRIORITIES The State’s road safety priorities are: • Urban intersections • Run-off road crashes, particularly in regional WA • Reducing speeding • Reducing impaired driving • Improving occupant protection and vehicle crash avoidance

  5. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 SAFE SYSTEM CORNERSTONES SAFE ROAD USE • Through this cornerstone, Towards Zero aims to create a safe system by improving road user behaviour: • educating and encouraging road users to comply with the road rules and drive alert and unimpaired • gradually introducing new (novice) drivers into the system • taking action against those who break the rules • promoting the philosophy of ‘shared responsibility’

  6. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 SAFE ROADS AND ROADSIDE • Through this cornerstone, Towards Zero aims to create a safe system by improving road infrastructure to reduce the risk of crashes occurring and the injuries if a crash does occur. • Towards Zero will focus on: • improving safety at intersections; • reducing the risk of run-off-road crashes through sealing shoulders, installing audible edge lines, removing roadside hazards and installing safety barriers; and • expanding the Black Spot and Safer Roads Programs.

  7. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 SAFE SPEEDS • Through this cornerstone, Towards Zero aims to ensure speed limits and travel speeds are appropriate for the safety of the road infrastructure by: • undertaking speed enforcement and education • establishing speed limits according to the features of the road and roadside, vehicle crashworthiness and the known limits of the road user

  8. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 The speed at impact matters

  9. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 SAFE VEHICLES • This cornerstone helps create a safe system by improving the safety of the vehicles on the road through: • promoting safety features that reduce the likelihood of a crash and the injuries if a crash does occur • encouraging consumers and businesses to purchase safer vehicles • compulsory purchase of safer vehicles for government fleets

  10. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 Not all cars in the same class are created equal Audi A1 (2010 on) RRP $35,000 Chery J1 (2011) RRP $11,990 Suzuki Swift (2011 on) RRP $16,690 And, not all safe cars are expensive.

  11. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 Not all cars in the same class are created equal Audi A1 (2010 on) RRP $35,000 Chery J1 (2011) RRP $11,990 Suzuki Swift (2011 on) RRP $16,690

  12. TOWARDS ZERO – The Western Australian Road Safety Strategy 2008-2020 Ultimately Towards Zero will help reduce the impact of road trauma on all our lives, ensuring a healthier lifestyle for us all. • If fully implemented Towards Zero will save 11,000 people from being killed or seriously injured • estimated financial cost • - of those injuries $6.6b ($600,000/KSI) • - to prevent them $2.5b ($230,000/KSI) • immeasurable emotional cost to victims and loved ones • benefits beyond road safety • - free up hospital resources • - encourage more active lifestyles • - reduce energy consumption • - create safer neighbourhoods

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