General News
3 June, 2019
Road Trip program begins
Young people across the Central Goldfields Shire are undergoing a program to help understand driving behaviours and increase hazard awareness.
Young people across the Central Goldfields Shire are undergoing a program to help understand driving behaviours and increase hazard awareness.
Road Trip, a joint program run by council and the Traffic Accident Commission (TAC), works to aid young people with basic driving skills, understanding road user behaviour, hazard perception skills and road safety more broadly.
Road Trip coordinator Audrey Bartlett, who is giving lessons at Maryborough’s Federation College TAFE, said the program is important for young people.
“When you think that the current daily road toll for Victoria is 1.15 people dying on the road it’s a serious thing,” she said.
“A majority of the people involved in these accidents are young people, so this is the target age group we need to address with this program.
“We work on behaviour changes, understanding driver behaviour, what individuals can change in their own lives to be safer on the road and as the trade off, we give participants some time behind the wheel to build experience, which they all love.”
Eighty young people have alreadycompleted the TAC funded program and Ms Bartlett said there’s currently a waiting list because young people “want to be safer”.
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