Road safety

NSW Police continue to have a heightened presence on our roads as Operation Safe Arrival continues. Operation Safe Arrival, the State’s Christmas and New Year road safety campaign, started at 12.01am on Friday 15 December, and will continue until 11.59pm on Monday 1 January 2018. There are more police on roads targeting drivers for dangerous…

Port Macquarie is one of Australia’s most iconic holiday time destinations and as a result, receives many visitors at this time of year. Such large, seasonal influxes of tourists has a profoundly positive effect on the local economy but also brings with it, its own set of inherent problems. It is an absolute necessity to…

IAM RoadSmart’s third annual Safety Culture Survey which examines the attitudes and concerns of drivers in the UK, has found that for the third year running their biggest worries are people updating social media or sending text messages while driving, drink or drug driving and mobile phone use. Drivers checking social media is the biggest…

Since 2011, six people have died and more than 57 injured on a 44 kilometre section of the Oxley Highway, west of Wauchope. These crashes devastate families and are damaging for tourism and local communities along the Oxley Highway. In response to the high crash rate a package of safety measures will be introduced on…

Looking at buying a car, but not sure how safe it is? The ANCAP Safety app lets you compare the safety rating of your current car with that one you’re looking to buy. You can store notes on potential cars, keep details on hand in the unlucky event of a crash and stay posted on…

A painted koala crossing message at a road strike black spot encourages drivers to keep an eye out for koalas. Road strike by cars and other vehicles is responsible for the majority of injuries and koala deaths within the area. Port Macquarie-Hastings Council has painted koala crossing messages on Ocean Drive in Port Macquarie, a known road…

Did you know, one in seven crashes on country roads involves an animal? In Port Macquarie we often see accidents involving deer that can cause serious damage and unfortunately we also see far too many incidents involving koalas. Kangaroos, deer, wombats and stray stock can move fast and be extremely unpredictable. When animals stray onto…

No one likes opening their wallet to pay a speeding fine. For Australian motorists, the collective sting of these fines now tops more than one billion dollars a year… and continues to rise. Victoria sits at the top of the charts for speed camera revenues. Fines from fixed and mobile traffic cameras topped $363.15 million…

Operation Slow Down, the State’s Labour Day weekend road safety campaign, starts after Midnight tonight (12.01am on Friday 29 September 2017), and will continue until 11.59pm on Monday 2 October 2017. Double demerits will be in place over the entire long-weekend for all speeding, mobile phone, seatbelt and motorcycle-helmet offences. Officers will be out in…

One in five motorists has had a near-miss on the roads because­ other drivers have been distracted by their mobile­ phones and almost a fifth of motorists admit to reading text messages­ while driving and using their phones illegally. NRMA director Tim Trumper said new research showed that drivers were twice as likely to have a…

According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald NSW’s youngest and most at-risk drivers are continuing to drive vehicles older than 10 years, which tests have shown may quadruple their chances of being killed or seriously injured in a crash. Around 45 per cent of those who died were driving vehicles at least 15…