Save lives, not time!

Along with passionate students and teachers, we’re calling time on dangerous driving near schools.

With reports of drivers running red lights at school crossings, speeding in school zones and refusing to stop for crossing supervisors, our school communities are pushing the importance of safe driving around schools, especially at drop-off and pick-up times.

Our crossing supervisors have reported many frightening traffic incidents and sadly, a few have reported being subjected to verbal abuse from irate drivers.

The ‘Save lives, not time!’ campaign messaging designed by Westall Secondary Student, Sunny Zhang, is being installed outside every Kingston school. At St Bede’s College in Mentone, the Active Youth Student team worked with our Traffic Safety Officers to create an education program that included the slogans ‘Be aware. We all share the road’ and ‘It can’t happen to me... until it does’

They want to educate motorists and students on bikes of the dangers of not being aware and respectful of each other.

Thanks to VicRoads funding, we worked with the students to arrange the design, printing and installation of banners around the college.

A similar education program has been undertaken at Westall Secondary College. The student slogans on bright, colourful posters outside the college and Westall Primary School, include ‘Life is not a game, don’t play it’ and ‘Take action, stop the distraction’

Find out more about road safety in Kingston!

Safety first for little learners

Our local kindergartens and early childhood centres have received road safety classroom sessions and have been provided with traffic-safety stickers with fun designs such as a helmeted dinosaur on a scooter and the message ‘Stop. Look. Listen. Think.’