New child restraint laws are coming!
NSW Premier Nathan Rees, with the Minister for Transport David Campbell, today announced the introduction of new child restraint laws for children up to seven years of age.
From 1 March, 2010, all children up to the age of seven years must be correctly restrained in an approved child restraint, suitable for their size and age.
All children under four years must be transported in the rear seat of a motor vehicle with two or more rows.
A child between the ages of four and seven can only travel in the front passenger seat of a vehicle if all available seating positions in the rear seat have been occupied by a child under four years in a child restraint.
For more information on choosing the correct restraint for your child go to the Child restraints page or download the Safer child restraints brochure.
July 2009
Satellites in position for major road safety trial
The NSW Centre for Road Safety has launched Australia’s biggest road safety trial using satellites and GPS-type devices to help motorists stay safe on NSW roads. Known as Intelligent Speed Adaptation this system enables a car to “know” the speed limit. The car can then use that information to give feedback to the driver (advisory systems) or limit the vehicles’ speed (supportive and limiting systems).
The NSW trial by the NSW Centre for Road Safety involves fitting 100 vehicles from private light vehicles in the Illawarra Region with an ISA device and a speed data recorder.
The project will run throughout 2009 and into early 2010.
Speeding is a factor in around 40 per cent of all fatal crashes in NSW with 155 people losing their lives on our roads last year because of speeding.
In November this year the RTA will host the first International Conference on Intelligent Speed Adaptation. It is expected that preliminary results from the Illawarra trial will be presented at the conference.
Find out more about ISA...
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