Who are we?

When driving be AWARE, be PREPARED is a campaign

from the NSW Road and Maritime Services.

Campaign was established in 2013

We visit schools state-wide of NSW from years 10-12.

Campaign raises awareness of the dangers/hazards of being

on the road as an adolescent.

Other programs we offer;

*Hazard Perception Awareness course (School Holiday Programs)

*I promise to drive AWARE, and PREPARED Conference

Our purpose

Main purpose = reduce the risks and hazards that all drivers will
encounter during their driving experience and to raise awareness of
hazard perception for road safety.

Target Audience = Years 10-12

Aims/goals

Long-term goal = To reduce the prevalence of car accidents caused by

distractions and poor hazard perception.

To minimize possible distractions/risks to enhance awareness of hazard

perception for road safety

To develop & enhance hazard perception skills to promote safer driving

and accident prevention

Programs structure
What

are the issues? (Why our campaign exists, statistics)

Poor

hazard perception Causes & Consequences?

(Discussion)

When

driving.. be AWARE, be PREPARED (Campaign

advertisement)

Practical

Activities - Follow the Line (Multi-task) Challenge

- Real-life scenarios (Reflection)

What are the issues?

21%

of all car & motorcycle fatal accidents involved young

people from the ages of 17-25 (ROAD TRAFFIC CRASHES IN NSW, 2013)

28%

of all fatal accidents from speeding drivers & motorcycle

riders involved males aged 17-25 (ROAD TRAFFIC CRASHES IN NSW, 2013)

July

2010 - June 2011 = 52,280 fines issued to NSW drives for

hand-held mobile phone usage while driving (Centre for Road Safety,
2015)

200610

= Hand-held mobile phone usage during driving

contributed to 157 accidents (Centre for Road Safety, 2015)

 Mobile

phone usage during driving has been reported to take

up at least a quarter of a trip (Centre for Road Safety, 2015)

Difficult

to prove illegal mobile phone usage while driving

(Centre for Road Safety, 2015)

Males

& females from ages of 17-39 have the highest rates of

mobile phone usage whilst driving (Centre for Road Safety, 2015)

SOURCE: (ROAD TRAFFIC CRASHES IN NSW, 2013)

Discussion Poor Hazard

Perception/Awareness
What is hazard perception?
Ability to scan the road environment & to predict the behaviour of
other drivers.
Causes
- Not Aware of surroundings

- Over confidence

- Passenger behaviour
concentration

- Speeding

-Distracted
-Poor

-Poor peripheral vision

Consequences

Injuries

- Financial cost

- Death

- Loss

Practical Activities
1)

Follow the Line Challenge

2 volunteers (TXT message & phone call situations)

Volunteers required to follow the line to the beat with the certain distractions

Aim = To stay on the line with both feet as much as possible

Purpose = Demonstrates the effects of distractions on driving/hazard
perception

2) Real-life stories

4 groups

Each group allocated a certain scenario

As a group investigate the scenario (Take notes)

Share to the class your findings

Aim = Raise awareness that incidents do happen from poor hazard

perception
Purpose = Not to cause grief/sadness but to help make you realise the
realism of this issue.

Reference
s

- Centre for Road Safety,. (2015).Get your hand off it - Campaigns - NSW Centre for Road
Safety. Retrieved 22 September 2015, from http://
roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/campaigns/getyourhandoffit.html
- Roads and Maritime Services,. (2015).Search demerit point offences. Retrieved 30
September 2015, from http://
www.rms.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?fuseaction=demeritpoints.searchhandler&searchfo
r=mobile+phone

- ROAD TRAFFIC CRASHES IN NSW. (2013) (1st ed., pp. 6-83). Chippendale. Retrieved from
http://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/downloads/crashstats2013.pdf