National Road Safety Week 2025

It’s National Road Safety Week! In 2025, the initiative continues to encourage all Australians to Drive So Others Survive.

In May each year, National Road Safety Week spotlights the profound impact of road trauma across Australia, and emphasises the collective responsibility that we have in our communities to increase safety on our roads.

In 2024, Australia saw its highest road toll in over ten years, with approximately 1300 fatalities and over 40 000 serious injuries. These numbers aren’t just statistics – they represent lives lost and communities, families, and individuals forever impacted. In Western Australia, nearly 190 people died on our roads last year – each loss a tragic reminder of the consequences of unsafe driving and road use practices.

For 2025, National Road Safety Week’s annual campaign has adopted daily themes to address specific areas of road safety, for all road users.

• Remember the 1300: Honouring lives tragically lost on Australian roads. The first day of National Road Safety Week is a solemn reminder of the real human cost behind every road injury and fatality statistic. Behind every number is a name, a life, a person.
• Your Speed Matters: Emphasising the dangers of speeding. Speeding remains one of the most common contributors to road trauma in Australia. Even small increases in speed will significantly increase the risk of death in a collision with another car or pedestrian. We must Drive So Other Survive, and adhere to speed limits, while adjusting speed according to road, weather, and traffic conditions.
• The Road to Zero: Protecting every life. Many road users are not behind the wheel or passengers of cars, rather they are pedestrians, cyclists, children, and so on. On the road to zero deaths and injuries on the roads, drivers and other road users are reminded to be aware of their surroundings and ensure that everyone Gets Home Safe.
• Get Home From Work Safe: Be aware of your surroundings. Our roads are just your path home from work – they’re everyone’s path home. For some, our roads are their offices, where they work to improve road quality, infrastructure, signage, barriers, safety crossings, and so on. All road users are reminded to look out for road workers and other road users, and to Drive So Others Survive.
• Road Safety For Every Age: Avoiding distraction and being a good passenger. As young drivers and passengers, teens can find themselves in difficult situations, where they must decide whether to speak up or to accept unnecessary, avoidable dangers, such as using phones while driving or other distractions. Avoiding distraction as a driver and avoiding being a distraction as a passenger are crucial to reducing the number of deaths and injury on Australian roads.
• On the Same Path: Share the road. This serves as a reminder that our roads are not only used by cars! Whether you’re a driver, passenger, motorcyclist, on the bus, on the path, or riding your bike – we all share the street, and have a responsibility to each other to ensure that everyone Gets Home Safe.
• Regional Road Safety: The unique risk on regional, rural, and remote roads. A significant number of road deaths occur in regional and rural areas, often due to high speeds, fatigue, and longer emergency response times. National Road Safety Week encourages safer driving habits on country roads – distance shouldn’t determine risk. Drive safely, wherever you are.
• Drive So Others Survive: Every trip you take is a shared responsibility. Drive like lives depend on it, because they do. This reminds drivers to consider how their actions impact everyone else on the road. Responsible behaviours can be the difference between life and death,  such as staying focused and aware, never driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, avoiding distractions such as mobile phone usage, wearing seatbelts, sticking to the speed limit, and driving to the conditions of the road.

These are daily reminders of the multifaceted nature of road safety and the importance of collective action. At the end of National Road Safety Week, all road users are encouraged to be a Road Safety Champion for the rest of the year, and employing safer driving and road use practices in their day-to-day lives.

Education plays a vital role in promoting road safety. For over 30 years, Constable Care Foundation has been at the forefront of the delivery of safety education to children and young people in Western Australia. Our creative harm-prevention programs have touched the lives of tens of thousands of children and young people, empowering them with social and safety education they carry for the rest of their lives.

The Constable Care Safety School is a cornerstone initiative of the Foundation, enabling young students to learn about road safety through immersive and interactive learning. By simulating realistic, life size urban environments, the Safety School delivers essential road safety education about pedestrian, bicycle, passenger, and public transport safety, preparing children to navigate these settings with confidence and certainty in their day-to-day lives.

Ultimately, National Road Safety Week is a call to action for every Australian to do their part in the reduction of injury and death on our roads. By adopting safer driving habits and empowering our children and young people with critical road safety education, we can all contribute to safer, more responsible roads – protecting and preserving lives.