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Funding worth $160,000 has been made available in Western Australia to deliver road safety messages to young people.

New grants target young drivers

Funding worth $160,000 has been made available in Western Australia to deliver road safety messages to young people. The Road Safety Commission's Community Initiative Grants...

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New research looking at ways to increase the number of women truck drivers have been released.

New study looks at ways of attracting more women truck drivers

New research looking at ways to increase the number of women truck drivers have been released. Industry image and perception, training school completion, truck parking...
Using federal crash data from 2016 to 2021, IIHS researchers estimated that equipping every light van on the road with front crash prevention, lane departure prevention, blind spot detection and intelligent speed assistance (ISA) could address 26 per cent of all police-reported crashes, 22 per cent of injury crashes and 37 per cent of fatal crashes involving such vehicles.

IIHS calls for delivery vans to be fitted with better safety...

Equipping the light vans that fulfill America’s online orders with four safety features could prevent or mitigate close to four out of ten fatal...
The most recent data reveals there were 2,066 fatal injuries from transportation incidents in 2022, making up nearly 38 per cent of the total job-related fatalities that year and a rise of just over four per cent from 1,982 in 2021.

Driving leading cause of job-related deaths in the US every year

Driving for work is the leading cause of job-related deaths in the US every year, according to figures from the US Bureau of Labor...