18/05/2026
This week is National Road Safety Week.
And there's a story behind why it exists.
In February 2012, a 23-year-old uni student named Sarah pulled over on the Hume Highway when her car broke down. A tow truck driver, Geoff, arrived to help her. Neither of them made it home that day.
It was the kind of moment that could have ended in silence. Instead, Sarah's father turned a family's heartbreak into a national movement.
The SARAH Group was founded. National Road Safety Week was created. And from one family's loss came the campaign we now know as Slow Down, Move Over. A law that today protects every roadside worker, emergency responder, and broken-down driver in this country.
It's a reminder of just how far we've come.
In 1970, more than 3,700 lives were lost on our roads every year. Today, with millions more cars out there, that number is roughly a third of what it was.
Every law, every reform and every person who chose to drive a little slower has helped change that story.
So this week, let's keep going. Let's slow down through worksites, watch for the stop bat, and move over for the people in hi-vis.
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