September is Rural Road Safety Month, and Australians are being urged to take extra care on regional and remote roads – including being particularly mindful of all road users such as children walking to or from school.
Rural Road Safety Month, now it its fifth year, is a national community-based initiative from the Australian Road Safety Foundation that seeks to highlight the additional risks present on or around rural roads.
Regional and remote road users account for almost two-thirds of the people who die on Australian roads each year.
It is not just visitors but locals are also killed and seriously injured on rural roads.
Stay safe by driving to the conditions, staying within signposted speeds limits, taking regular breaks and sharing the drive on long road journeys.
For more on Rural Road Safety Month, and to make the promise to Choose Road Safety, head to arsf.com.au/rural-road-safety-month.
