Across Australia around 1,400 people are killed each year and more than 32,500 are hospitalised. This averages four deaths and nearly 90 serious injuries on Australian roads and costs our community on average $74 million each and every day.

The Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP) is a program run by the Australian Automobile Association and State and Territory automobile clubs (including RACT),dedicated to saving lives through advocating for safer road infrastructure.

AusRAP’s latest report How Safe Are Our Roads? (rating Australia’s National Network for Risk)compares two five-year sets of data to analyse traffic and serious casualty crash statistics over the 20,000km of National Highway across the country to map the nation’s riskiest roads. View it online here here http://www.ausrap.org/ausrap/performance-tracking-report/

AusRAP advocates for safer roads through engineering and infrastructure improvements: low-cost measures like widening road shoulders, improving line markings, removing obstacles from the sides of roads, putting in place crash-avoidance – these measures can improve road safety outcomes without huge expense to governments.

AusRAP Tas brochure 2011 Click here to download the Tasmanian results.

What are your views on our National Highway roads in Tasmania? Have they got better or worse in the last ten years?

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