Road safety week concludes but efforts continue

The Central Region Road Safety Week concluded yesterday at the Emergency Services Expo at the Heritage Village, Rockhampton.

Assistant Commissioner Mike Condon said that having Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG as an ambassador had helped raise the profile of the week.

“I thank the community for their commitment to the week. Unfortunately we still saw 150 intoxicated drivers and 168 mobile phone offences.

“We have to continue the work to educate and inform the community about road safety,” Assistant Commissioner Mike Condon said.

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In total the four pace cars completed over 17,900kms throughout the week and will continue to be out on deployment in school zones, road works and other high risk localities to help ‘Pace’ traffic.

The Queensland Police Service announced the road safety week in the Central Region as part of its ongoing efforts to help reduce the road toll.

The week has been developed through an innovative and shared responsibility approach to road safety with the main theme being ‘Road Safety is your future.’

The Central Region recorded 95 fatalities in 2013 and while this represents a reduction on the previous year it is still the highest toll for any Police region in Queensland. The road toll for the region in 2014 is currently seven – 22 less than at this point last year.

Statistics from the Central Region Road Safety Week campaign are available below;

* Traffic Infringement Notices – All

^ Traffic Infringement Notices – Life Endangering Offences

Disclaimer – these figures are not official Service statistics. Official Police Service statistics are released only through the Information Resource Centre after available data is collected, classified and collated in accordance with nationally accepted rules.