Information for Secondary School Students
The ACRS Library at the Head Office in Canberra has road safety teaching materials for primary and secondary students. Contact us at faa@acrs.org.au for further information.
There are some road safety websites that have project material or activities aimed specially for kindergarten and primary age children. Examples are given in our Early Childhood and Primary Children’s Page.
Also available
- Young Driver Factbase - an online tool containing most up to date evidence on young driver safety
- Victorian First car list for safe, affordable used cars
- Questions and answers for senior secondary school students.
- Safe School Travel SafeSTQueensland Department of Transport .
- Road Ready program ACT
- PBFPrevention- road
- ‘School Drug Education and Road Aware Program’ of the Western Australian Department of Education and Training.
- Northern Territory Transport Group publications and factsheets
- TAC Safety Resources for Schools Victoria
- NSW Department of Education and Training Road Safety Education
- NSW RTA road safety education program and resources for NSW residents only
- NSW RTA young driver website
- Road safety education by NSW Fire Brigades to NSW High school students
- Land Transport Education Centre New Zealand
- ‘Nova’ website of the Australian Academy of Science has some excellent articles on road safety – ideal resources for secondary students doing road safety assignments: ‘
- The shocking truth about road trauma’
- ‘Driver fatigue – an accident waiting to happen’
- ‘Death defying designs for car safety’
- ‘Fatal impact – the physics of speeding cars’
- ‘Alcohol and cars – a volatile mix’
- ‘A fair cop! Accurate breath analysis and speed detection’
- ‘Bitumen battles – the phenomenon of road rage’
- ‘The Dope on drug-impaired driving’
- Bogged down in the four-wheel drive debate?’
- Recording Artists, Actors and Athletes Against Drink Driving (RADD)
- Safe Driving Agreement between young people and their parents
- Peer Group Young Persons’ Safe Driving Agreement
- UK secondary school teaching resources on road safety
- Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents school teaching resources
- or use the search term ‘road safety streaming video” in your search engine to find videos