Road safety


MEDIA BRIEFING: Putting the brakes on car crashes – the science of road safety

Thu Sep 1, 2011

ONLINE NEWS BRIEFING – Thursday 1 September at 10.45am AEST online Accidents on the roads not only lead to deaths and injuries, but the cost of road trauma in Australia is considered to be around $27 billion per year. Huge amounts of research are being done to make smarter cars, self-driving cars, safer cars, safer [...]

RAPID ROUNDUP: Reducing blood alcohol limit to 0.02 – Experts respond

Mon Mar 15, 2010

The Queensland Government have released the Drink Driving in Queensland Discussion Paper which asks for the public to comment on a range of measures to curb drink driving including dropping the allowable blood alcohol limit to 0.02.