road safety

  • Plans to enhance road safety

    Colac Otway Shire Council is hoping to enhance the safety of roads in the shire through $2 million in State Government funding.

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  • Businesses supporting 40-km zone extension

    Community member Joy Middleton has called for the Colac Otway Shire’s new speed limit introductions in Colac’s CBD to be extended an extra block.

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  • Petition calls for road fix

    Simpson locals and community leaders are calling for sweeping changes to a dangerous stretch of the Lavers Hill-Cobden Road following six recent crashes. State Member for Polwarth Richard Riordan, Corangamite Mayor Kate Makin, Simpson Community House’s Deb Smith and Timboon business man David Costin gathered where 40-kilometre-per-hour signs have been introduced in response to the […]

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  • Safe driving message as road toll hits 287

    Victorians are being urged to put safe driving at the top of their to-do list this festive season, as the state experiences the highest number of fatalities on its roads in more than a decade.

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  • Ballarat road labelled ‘beyond dangerous’

    Colac district motorists have labelled the Colac-Ballarat Road as “disgusting”, “scary”, “beyond dangerous” and “an accident waiting to happen”.

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  • Guiding scores of motorists to their licence

    Ten years. More than 5000 hours on the road. Scores of young drivers safely behind the wheel.

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  • Trains dodge cars

    V-Line trains have been involved in almost 60 near-hit incidents in the past year, prompting a call for motorists to be more vigilant for trains.

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  • Police investigate Wongarra crash

    Police are appealing for information about a crash during an organised motorcycle ride on the Great Ocean Road.

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