One of my roles as a councillor is to attend the Road Accident Action Group (RAAG) meetings.
Together with Cr Russell Seymour, we lend our support to assist RAAG in achieving its vision, which is ‘to reduce road trauma through collaboration and advocacy of road safety awareness, leading to improved outcomes for all road users’.
RAAG is a volunteer-run, non-profit organisation operating for the past 20 years with a strategic goal of reducing road crashes and fatalities in the Mackay, Isaac and Bowen Basin region.
RAAG has run numerous educational and awareness campaigns over the years. Current projects include their ‘Wide Load Education’ campaign, supported by Glencore – Hail Creek.
This campaign involves creating large permanent signs placed at rest areas throughout the region to assist road users in understanding how to approach situations involving wide loads on the road. The installation of all 21 signs has been carried out by volunteers.
Another of their campaigns is the ‘Work Out Visibly’ campaign, funded by the Gambling Community Benefit Fund, and will see 10,000 high visibility items distributed across our communities.
Volunteers are critical to the ongoing operations at RAAG and without them they would not be able to achieve their vision. All executive, committee and member positions are volunteers. They welcome new members and volunteers to become involved.
If you are passionate about road safety, RAAG would love to hear from you. Being a volunteer with RAAG will allow you to have a positive impact on the community, work with other like-minded people to achieve a fatality-free future for our roads and utilise your skills, knowledge, and experience to promote change.
If this article has raised your interest, please consider attending a RAAG meeting held on the second Thursday of each month from 10am to noon at the Resources Centre of Excellence (65 Crichtons Road, Paget). For more information or any questions, send an email to admin@raag.com.au, visit raag.com.au or find them on Facebook. Alternatively, you can call me, Cr Laurence Bonaventura on 0427 638 673.
Cr Laurence Bonaventura
Mackay Regional Council
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