❓ Mr. Blayney asks about the use of road trauma trust account funds for youth driver education in the Midwest region. The Minister details a grant awarded to the Rotary Club of Geraldton for programs in several schools, focusing on safe driving practices and road trauma awareness.
AnsweredQoN 618Legislative Assembly
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ROAD TRAUMA TRUST ACCOUNT — YOUTH DRIVER
EDUCATION PROGRAMS — MIDWEST REGION
618. Mr I.C. BLAYNEY to the Minister for Road Safety :
Can the minister please advise the house —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : That is
enough!
Mr I.C. BLAYNEY : Can the minister please advise the house
how the Liberal–National government is using road trauma trust account
funds to improve road safety outcomes for young people in the midwest region?
EDUCATION PROGRAMS — MIDWEST REGION
618. Mr I.C. BLAYNEY to the Minister for Road Safety :
Can the minister please advise the house —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : That is
enough!
Mr I.C. BLAYNEY : Can the minister please advise the house
how the Liberal–National government is using road trauma trust account
funds to improve road safety outcomes for young people in the midwest region?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Geraldton for the question and, indeed, his
interest in the record $146 million allocation from the road trauma trust
account for the next financial year to deal with road safety initiatives across
the regions and metro Perth. I am very pleased to announce that the Rotary Club
of Geraldton has been successful in achieving a road trauma trust account
grant.
Mr I.C. Blayney interjected.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY : Indeed; it is the member's club, so
he might participate in the project.
This grant will achieve two youth driver education programs for years
10 and 11 students across the midwest district. The program will be delivered
to Geraldton Grammar School; Geraldton Senior High School; Kalbarri, Mullewa
and Morawa District High Schools; and Nagle Catholic College. The program will
reinforce the four pillars of the safe systems approach of the Towards Zero
strategy, which is safer road use, safer speeds, safer vehicles and safer roads
and road signs. They will also engage with students on the areas that we know
are at risk and the areas that are the major causes of fatal and serious injury
crashes. The students will learn about road law; they will learn about the
effects of drugs and alcohol on their driving; they will learn about the
effects of fatigue and distraction; and they will learn about the Australasian
New Car Assessment Program safety
rating system for vehicles so that they understand how important safer vehicles
might be for them. In addition, they will engage with people who have been
victims of road trauma. In particular, one of the six interactive sessions will
involve a survivor of road trauma—a young man whose life has been
significantly changed following a serious crash as a P-plater after having had
his licence for only two weeks. I think that particular speaker will have a significant
impact on those young drivers. We know that young people who engage in these
sorts programs say that they feel they are better informed and are more willing
to make better and safer choices when they are driving.
The program will go also into areas of specific challenges for driving.
In the midwest region, as we know, there are long stretches of road where
students need to be particularly conscious of the effects of fatigue, and also
of the difference between driving on a sealed road and an unsealed road,
because obviously different driving techniques are required for both, and we
need to keep our young people safe as they encounter those very different road
conditions in the midwest region.
So, congratulations to the Rotary Club of Geraldton, member for
Geraldton. I hope the member can advise the club that he has raised this issue
in Parliament today. I am really pleased to see the road trauma trust account
spend going out to local groups like this to get to grassroots level in our
communities and make an impact on our young drivers to help reverse the road
toll in regional WA.
interest in the record $146 million allocation from the road trauma trust
account for the next financial year to deal with road safety initiatives across
the regions and metro Perth. I am very pleased to announce that the Rotary Club
of Geraldton has been successful in achieving a road trauma trust account
grant.
Mr I.C. Blayney interjected.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY : Indeed; it is the member's club, so
he might participate in the project.
This grant will achieve two youth driver education programs for years
10 and 11 students across the midwest district. The program will be delivered
to Geraldton Grammar School; Geraldton Senior High School; Kalbarri, Mullewa
and Morawa District High Schools; and Nagle Catholic College. The program will
reinforce the four pillars of the safe systems approach of the Towards Zero
strategy, which is safer road use, safer speeds, safer vehicles and safer roads
and road signs. They will also engage with students on the areas that we know
are at risk and the areas that are the major causes of fatal and serious injury
crashes. The students will learn about road law; they will learn about the
effects of drugs and alcohol on their driving; they will learn about the
effects of fatigue and distraction; and they will learn about the Australasian
New Car Assessment Program safety
rating system for vehicles so that they understand how important safer vehicles
might be for them. In addition, they will engage with people who have been
victims of road trauma. In particular, one of the six interactive sessions will
involve a survivor of road trauma—a young man whose life has been
significantly changed following a serious crash as a P-plater after having had
his licence for only two weeks. I think that particular speaker will have a significant
impact on those young drivers. We know that young people who engage in these
sorts programs say that they feel they are better informed and are more willing
to make better and safer choices when they are driving.
The program will go also into areas of specific challenges for driving.
In the midwest region, as we know, there are long stretches of road where
students need to be particularly conscious of the effects of fatigue, and also
of the difference between driving on a sealed road and an unsealed road,
because obviously different driving techniques are required for both, and we
need to keep our young people safe as they encounter those very different road
conditions in the midwest region.
So, congratulations to the Rotary Club of Geraldton, member for
Geraldton. I hope the member can advise the club that he has raised this issue
in Parliament today. I am really pleased to see the road trauma trust account
spend going out to local groups like this to get to grassroots level in our
communities and make an impact on our young drivers to help reverse the road
toll in regional WA.
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