THANK YOU!
The team behind Fatality Free Friday would like to thank sponsors, supporters, pledge partners, community groups, governments and other agencies for the outstanding support of Fatality Free Friday in 2008.

Planning is well underway for the next year’s event, so mark May 22, 2009 in your diaries today. Over the coming year, the Fatality Free Friday newsletter and the web site will be regularly updated with new information. In addition we will be putting the spotlight on community activites and road safety publicity.

If you’d like to become more involved with Fatality Free Friday and organise an event for your workplace or community, let us know - we’d love to support your efforts.

The 3rd Annual
Fatality Free Friday
will be held on 22 May 2009

Each year, around 1600 people die on Australia’s roads. By far the most dangerous days - those which statistically suffer the most deaths - are Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Road safety is a complex issue but we believe that if drivers consciously think about road safety and safe driving for just one Friday in the year, that day’s toll - statistically about 5.3 deaths - could be reduced to zero.

That’s our aim. Not a single road death in Australia for just one day. Just one Fatality Free Friday.

And we further hope that by making people think about staying alive on the road on one Friday, they’ll drive safer for the next few days too and reduce the traditionally high weekend fatality rate.

Who knows? Perhaps drivers can keep thinking safety each and every Friday and we won’t just save 5 or 6 lives but many more.

How Do You Do It?
Take the pledge to drive safely on Fatality Free Friday.

In addition, read the further information on this web site, especially the section What You Can Do.

Fatality Free Friday was founded in 2007. The 2008 effort was made possible thanks to a range of sponsors. Please support them.

In 2009, Fatality Free Friday in Australia will be held on 22 May.

The first Fatality Free Friday was held in Australia on 27 April 2007, coinciding with the United Nations Global Road Safety Week.

The total of 6 deaths on that day was statistically average for fatalities in Australia on Fridays (average 5.3 annually).

Although the aim of no fatalities was not achieved, we believe the first Fatality Free Friday was at least successful in raising a greater road safety awareness. Many people and organisations took the Fatality Free Friday Pledge and signed our Guestbook, the day achieved coverage in a wide range of publications and even received coverage in New Zealand thanks to V8 Supercars Australia - not bad for a campaign which was conceived and launched only at the end of January.

In the meantime, Fatality Free Friday went international with the first US Fatality Free Friday taking place in Las Vegas on 25 May 2007.

It's hoped to stage a Fatality Free Friday in the UK in November 2009.

Please keep coming back to this website for further news - and feel free to take the Fatality Free Friday Pledge for any Friday of the year or, for that matter, any day.