{"id":8756,"date":"2019-06-12T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8756"},"modified":"2019-06-12T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:45:19","slug":"seven-australian-states-and-territories-achieve-fatality-free-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/seven-australian-states-and-territories-achieve-fatality-free-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Australian states and territories achieve Fatality Free Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half a million Australians pledged their support to Fatality Free Friday on 31 May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, one person \u2013 a 20-year-old \u2013 was killed in Queensland in a highway rollover. The remaining states and territories experienced no fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen one person is killed on our roads, there are countless loved ones who will forever bear the burden of losing that person,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/arsf.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australian Road Safety Foundation<\/a> founder and CEO Russell White. \u201cThis is why we\u2019re committed to advocating for road safety on Fatality Free Friday, and each and every day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we can record how many fatalities there were, we cannot count the number of lives that were saved. One life lost on our roads is one too many, so we will continue to drive home the safety message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr White said the Foundation hoped that if people committed to driving safely on Fatality Free Friday, that they would do so the next day and ultimately change their behaviour entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Held annually on the last Friday in May, Fatality Free Friday is the nation\u2019s largest community-based road safety initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half a million Australians pledged their support to Fatality Free Friday on 31 May 2019. Sadly, one person \u2013 a 20-year-old \u2013 was killed in Queensland in a highway rollover. The remaining states and territories experienced no fatalities. \u201cWhen one person is killed on our roads, there are countless loved ones who will forever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}