Safe System Model – Moffitts Farm

admin January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 0 Comments Default speed limits, Pedestrian cyclist safety, Safe System Model, Vision Zero 2050

Ministers accept 100km/h default speed as OK for rural road pedestrians – no questions asked

For a pedestrian sharing a default 100km/h speed limit rural road any driver error can lead to death or serious injury. Photo: Patrick Francis

Road Safety - People and Wildlife Rural road user equity and safety

admin October 28, 2025November 1, 2025 0 Comments Default speed limits, Pedestrian cyclist safety, Rural roads, Safe System Model

Government ignores pedestrians and cyclists in country road default speed limit probe

As peri-urban and regional town populations grow the increasing number of pedestrians and cyclists sharing default 100km/h roads outside built-up areas face serious injury and death unless Safe System Speeds are adopted by Federal, State and Territory transport departments.

Wildlife road kills are increasing year on year. Echidna road kill. Photo Patrick Francis.

Road Safety - People and Wildlife Wildlife vehicle collisions

admin March 14, 2025November 1, 2025 0 Comments Safe System Model, Vision Zero 2050, Wildlife road kills, Wildlife vehicle collisions, Wildlife warning signs

Driver behaviour dictates politicians’ attitudes to vehicle wildlife collisions

Patrick Francis reviews the published evidence behind the disconnect between Australian drivers attitude to maximum speed limits and the messages behind tens of thousands of wildlife warning signs installed across regional, rural and remote road networks.

Wombat and joey road kill on a default 100km/h central Victoria gravel lane with Land for Wildlife farms either side. Photo: Patrick Francis.

Road Safety - People and Wildlife Wildlife vehicle collisions

admin March 12, 2025November 2, 2025 0 Comments Safe System Model, Vision Zero 2050, Wildlife road kills, Wildlife signs, Wildlife vehicle collisions

Signs signs everywhere wildlife signs and dead wildlife

Patrick Francis examines why there are tens of thousands of yellow wildlife warning signs along Australia’s rural and regional roads but no guidance to drivers from state transport and environment departments about what speed should be embraced to prevent vehicle wildlife collisions, vehicle occupant casualties and road kills.