South Australia's Road Safety Strategy to 2031

Cover of Road Safety Strategy to 2031

South Australia’s Road Safety Strategy to 2031 (the Strategy) includes:

  • Principles to underpin road safety decision-making and actions.
  • Strategic priorities that are the focus areas for the Strategy, informed by evidence and consultation. These priority areas are identified to collectively contribute to achieving our ten-year target.

The nine road safety strategic focus areas are:

  • Road user behaviour: Supporting and enforcing safer road user behaviour
  • Vehicles: Increasing the use and purchase of safer vehicles in South Australia
  • Roads: Safer design, construction and maintenance of road infrastructure
  • Regional and remote areas: Reducing the number of lives lost and serious injuries on regional and remote roads
  • Workplaces: Developing a culture of road safety in South Australian workplaces
  • Aboriginal road safety: Reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal people in road crashes
  • Older road users: Greater focus on road users aged 70+
  • Walking, cycling and public transport: Improving safety for people who walk and cycle and increasing public transport patronage
  • Young drivers and riders with a focus on those living in regional or remote areas: Reducing the over-representation in road crashes.

Development of the Strategy has been guided by extensive consultation with stakeholders and the community. Read the Consultation Outcomes Report (PDF, 2415 KB).

Road Safety Action Plan 2023–2025

South Australia’s Road Safety Action Plan is a rolling three-year action plan, which is reviewed annually. It sets out the South Australian Government’s actions to achieve its 10-year targets to reduce lives lost by 50% and serious injuries by 30% in line with the Road Safety Strategy to 2031 and the National Road Safety Action Plan 2023–2025.

The Road Safety Action Plan has 10 central themes:

  • Schools and local places
  • Public transport, cycling and walking
  • Motorcyclists
  • Aboriginal road users
  • Road user behaviour
  • Road safety in the workplace
  • Regional and remote areas
  • Heavy vehicles
  • Vehicles and technology
  • Research and data.

A progress report will be published annually.

Read the strategy

Read the strategy on this website or download a copy of South Australia's Road Safety Strategy to 2031 (PDF, 7597 KB).

Development of the Strategy has been guided by extensive consultation with stakeholders and the community. Read the Consultation Outcomes Report (PDF, 2415 KB).

Acknowledgement of Country

The South Australian Government acknowledges and respects Aboriginal people as the State’s first people and nations, and recognises Aboriginal people as traditional owners and occupants of South Australian land and waters.