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Driver Education Not Teaching Safety Behaviours

Novice driver education in Australia doesn’t teach essential safety behaviour around bike riders well. Cycle Aware can address this. At the recent International Cycling Safety Conference, Dr Jennifer Bonham explained about the  Cycle Aware driver education program.  Cycle Aware is based on Australia-wide research and is designed to foster safer interactions bike riders. Unfortunately, a

Heavy Vehicles

Too many people are dying or being seriously injured in crashes involving heavy vehicles.  Heavy vehicles can be made safer for people walking and riding bikes, and you can help make this change. According to the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities, 216 Australians died in 2017 from 196 fatal crashes involving heavy vehicles, up from