Key priorities

The biggest contributing factors to the road toll are speed, drink driving, failure to give way at intersections, fatigue and safety belt use.

Speed and/or drink driving are implicated in nearly half of all fatal crashes.

Each year, over 2,500 crashes occur because someone fails to stop or give way at an intersection.

Normal levels of tiredness aren't usually perceived as harmful but each year fatigued driving contributes to more than 40 deaths and injures nearly 900 people.

Each year approximately 80 people are killed not wearing safety belts. It's estimated that at least 25 of these lives would've been saved if they'd used the safety belts available to them.

• Speed
• Drink-driving
• Failure to give way at intersections
• Fatigue
• Safety belts

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Last updated: 16 June 2008