Road safety and accident prevention has become a key element of the Insurance Commission's commercial strategy of running an effective and efficient insurance organisation. By targeting expenditure on accident prevention, the aim is to save lives, reduce injury and maintain the lowest premium in Australia for a family motor car. In achieving this outcome the Insurance Commission is also committed to providing benefits to claimants equivalent, or better than those provided by alternative schemes throughout the other States of Australia. The economic and social costs associated with road crashes have made the issue of road safety a major concern for the community. Each year in WA more than 200 people die on our roads and a further 2,500 are seriously injured.
Road trauma costs Western Australia more than one billion dollars per annum.
The human and emotional costs can never be measured. The Government's objective is to eliminate road crashes as a major cause of death and injury in Western Australia. The vision for road safety is to have Western Australia as the national leader in road safety and to have road safety as a prime consideration of all WA road users with the community working together to improve road safety. Better co-ordination between all of the agencies and organisations was identified as being fundamental to a strategy for achieving safer roads. This goal will be achieved by everyone working together.