A glance at the road toll indicates that Australian streets aren’t as safe as they should be – for drivers and passengers in vehicles, for cyclists and for pedestrians. It’s easy to forget, too, that the tolls don’t include the thousands of people who incur injuries of varying degrees in accidents on and near our roads – injuries that ruin the lives of those hurt or maimed, and often the lives of family members, too.
The most important things you can do are to act sensibly, walk or ride where you’re supposed to (and don’t where you’re not supposed to), wear a seatbelt whenever you’re in a car, and don’t drink and drive, or enter a car in which the driver has been drinking or has taken drugs.
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