Road Trauma In Australia

1.0 Introduction
Road Trauma, is a hidden tragedy of the road, we have become acclimatised and relatively numb to catching an idea of the devastatingly high loss of life. Crash fatalities are turning into an expanding condition and an undesirable occurrence for today’s youths. The results of being in a car crash is that the recuperation from these grievances can take a very long time of treatment, physiotherapy, yet the physical and mental agony may never leave for both the injured and their friends and family (NOVA: Australian of Science - Road Trauma Prevention). Research shows that consistently on Australian streets roughly 1,600 fatalities, and more than 50,000 injuries happen and over 223 people lost their lives on Queensland roads in

The implementation of the Speed Conversation Strategy (SCS) has shown that there are a number of key influences that need to be addressed in order to improve the attitudes, beliefs and personal skills of young drivers aged 17-24 years, these key factors include widening the access to the program and making it possibly accessible to schools. The strategy should also provide information that dispels the myths around travelling speeds, speed limits, crash risk, crash outcome severity, enforcement, responsibility, ‘revenue raising’, travel time and government priorities. To improve community participation and driver attitudes, behaviours and personal skills about safer speeds there would need to be a key focus on Road Safety Education. The unbearable 627 deaths or serious injuries that occur on Queensland’s roads each year is unacceptable. Road Safety Education has been found to be beneficial in changing the attitudes and behaviours of young drivers by allowing schools to have access to best practiced strategies such as the RACQ docudrama could potentially allowing students to be made aware of the risks and focuses on cognitive and perceptual skill development, as young people have a less developed ability to scan their environment and predict the behaviour of other road users (Schools guide: how to select providers of road safety education programs for senior school students, 2009). A best practice program that could be integrated with schools across the Redlands potentially is RACQ Docudrama as they both are very detailed when explain the possible dangers on the road. These two practiced strategies will build supportive environments and personal skills. Key initiatives and commitments that should be taken under consideration to