Easter 2008 Road Safety Campaign
Don't let our faces be the last you ever see!
As Easter approaches many of us will be planning road trips all over the Territory to take advantage of the four-day holiday break. Whether you are travelling away or staying close to home take care on the roads this Easter. Don’t drive when you are tired and take advantage of the Coffee Brake stops at participating roadhouses.
The Easter 2008 Road Safety campaign message comes from Emergency Services, people who are all too familiar with the terrible effects of road trauma on everyone involved including the victims, their families and friends and passers-by who stop to help.
These are some of the vital workers whose job it is to try and save the lives of crash victims -
- Station Officer Colin Snowden, NT Fire and Rescue Service
- Senior Constable Dave Gilmour, Traffic Operations, NT Police
- Warren Purse, Paramedic St John Ambulance
- Ronnie Taylor, Clinical Nurse Manager Emergency Department Royal Darwin Hospital
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Like everyone else, they would love to spend Easter with families and friends - relaxing and enjoying all the wonderful things the Territory has to offer. But they know only too well how quickly the best of holidays can go badly wrong, leaving families devastated and lives shattered.
A fatal crash affects not just the victims, their families and friends, but also people who stop to help and the emergency workers themselves.
Their message to the wider community is simple -
'Just drive safely and always wear your seatbelt!'
Listen to the radio advertisements and read the scripts.
Read a testimonial (pdf 91KB) of a Territorian who experienced a crash which could have cost him his life, had he not been wearing his seatbelt.