PHOTO: Crash scenario filming
Young actors from the Lachlan shire have to chance to educate their peers in a mock crash about the importance of road safety as part of an ongoing program that is smashing statistics in the region.
This is Road Safety Week – 5 May to 12 May – which raises awareness about traffic injury and the over-representation of fatalities among children and young adults under the age of 25.
A shocking 45 per cent of all young Australian injury deaths are due to road traffic crashes.
“Traffic injury is the biggest killer of Australian children under 15 and the second biggest killer of all Australians aged 15-25,” according to Safer Australian Roads and Highways group.
Along with Parkes and Forbes shires, Lachlan council and the annual crop of young actors are aiming to change those statistics…