Road safety experts will hold a media conference as part of the 2015 Australasian Road Safety Conference.
WHAT: Media conference
WHERE: Upper Level Foyer, Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Cnr of Gold Coast Highway & TE Peters Drive, Gold Coast
WHEN: Thursday October 15
TIME: 10am-10.30am
WHY: Road safety experts will discuss the increasing road toll in Queensland and Australia and the latest research being undertaken to prevent future fatalities.
As part of the 2015 Australasian Road Safety Conference, more than 600 experts from across the globe are sharing the latest in road safety research, with the view of taking a "towards zero" approach to reducing the road toll at home and abroad.
So far this year there has been an almost 6 per cent increase in people dying on Queensland roads compared to the same time last year. Over the Easter long weekend there was an increase in fatalities of 166 per cent. Although historically Australia has been a world leader in road safety, experts say we have now fallen behind and we can and must improve.
INTERVIEW OPPORTUNTIES
•Professor Narelle Haworth, director, CARRS-Q
•Assistant Commissioner Mike Keating, Queensland Police Service
•Lauchlan McIntosh, president, Australasian College of Road Safety
•Nick Koukoulas, CEO, Austroads
•Gavin Smith, CEO, Bosch Australia
A full conference program can be viewed at http://acrs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/ARSC2015-Draft-Program.pdf
The conference is supported by the Australasian College of Road Safety, Austroads, the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q) and the Queensland Government.
* To arrange media parking and media passes, contact Clare Murray on 0409 813 276
Media contacts:
Clare Murray, 0409 813 276, clare.murray@qut.edu.au
Sandra Hutchinson, QUT Media officer, 07 3138 9449 media@qut.edu.au
Rose Trapnell, QUT media team leader, 07 3139 2361 or mobile to come
