About the State Highway Safety Plan
The Plan has two key aims:
- To provide a consistent, safe and forgiving road environment with no surprises for road users.
- To provide a safe working environment for maintenance and construction activities.
It covers initiatives such as:
- speed management
- speed zoning
- reducing vehicle-train crashes
- considering the needs of vulnerable road users
- keeping vehicles on the roadway
- minimising the consequences of leaving the roadway
- reducing head-on and across-median crashes.
In 2010 we'll be updating the Plan in response to the government's Road Safety to 2020 Strategy (external link).
Learn about what we're doing to make state highways safer for all road users by:
- creating forgiving roadsides that reduce the likelihood of death and serious injury should a crash occur
- creating readable roads that help prevent road crashes by eliminating 'surprises'
- using other initiatives that help prevent crashes from occurring.
