NSW Government and Charles Sturt University (CSU) are teaming up to promote road safety to students following a sharp increase in the country road toll last year.
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Students at CSU in Orange will be targeted with messages about speeding, fatigue, drink driving, mobile phone distraction and animal strikes through road safety forums and O-Week activities.
Parliamentary Secretary for Western NSW Rick Colless said young drivers are over-represented in the country road toll.
“P-Platers make up 8 percent of all driver licence holders in the country, yet their crashes account for 15 percent of country road fatalities,” Mr Colless said.
“Tragically, that equates to 78 people aged 17-25 years killed on NSW roads last year, with 47 of those fatalities occurring on a country road.”
The initiative will extend to CSU campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Bathurst, Port Macquarie, and Wagga Wagga.