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• Melbourne 'Empty Shoes' Display
  FFF Patron Bev Brock, also Patron for Road Trauma Services in Victoria, racing car driver Mark Winterbottom, Victorian Roads Minister Tim Pallas and Deputy Police Commissioner Ken Lay were the speakers as 1500 pairs of shoes signified lives lost in a Fderation Square, Melbourne display. More about the Melbourne event.
  
  
• Townsville 'Empty Shoes' Display
  Fatality Free Friday was marked in a big way in Townsville with the city becoming the first regional centre to hold an 'empty shoes' display on Fatality Free Friday. More...
  
  
• Fatality Free Friday 2010
  From one end of the country to the other, community organisations used Fatality Free Friday to encourage better and safer driving on Australia’s roads. More...
  
  
• Brisbane 'Empty Shoes' Display
  Dozens of volunteers worked from before dawn to prepare the Fatality Free Friday ‘empty shoes’ display at Brisbane’s Reddacliff Place. More than 1500 pairs of shoes, representing the lives of men, women and children cut short through road crashes in Australia last year, provided a graphic reminder of the human cost of road trauma. More about the Brisbane event. Further coverage to come about displays in Victoria and Townsville.
  
  
• Central Queensland Mining Company On Pledge Drive
  Employees at Bowen Basin miner BMA Coal got ready for Fatality Free Friday yesterday with a call to take the pledge in their seven mines and Hay Point Terminal near Mackay. FFF has been promoted by safety officers throughout BMA and its parent BHP Billiton since 2009.
  
  
  
• VicRoads Adds To FFF Sponsors
  VicRoads - Victoria's lead government agency for road transport - has joined Fatality Free Friday as a Gold Alliance Partner.
  
  
• Breakfast Road Safety Seminar by FFF Alliance Partner
  Fatality Free Friday alliance partners Olpac hosted a breakfast seminar on May 21 for Redland City Council Main Roads Depot to promote driver safety and Fatality Free Friday.The event is one of a series of activities undertaken by Fatality Free Friday sponsors and supporters to promote the national road safety day which takes place on 28 May 2010. Olpac directors, Robert Cochrane and Glenn Robertson spoke on health and safety issues relating to seat belt use and alcohol use while Fatality Free Friday founder Russell White addressed the gathering about the Fatality Free Friday event. Local SES volunteers manned the barbecues for the morning for the cooked breakfast.
  
  
• Fatality Free Friday Gets Bass Coast Support
  In 2008, 32 people died and 363 more were seriously injured on Gippsland roads. Bass Coast Road Safety Committee has a long-term commitment to reducing the local road toll, introducing a number of innovative projects to help raise awareness and increase driving skills. These include the L2P and New Arrivals Driver Education programs. One of the most confronting and successful initiatives was the Crash Vehicle project, officially launched in September. Read their full statement of support for Fataility Free Friday here.
  
  
• Fatality Free Friday in Townsville - 'Bigger than Texas'
  That's how local Yokohama Tyre Business Development Executive Geoff Hansen describes Fatality Free Friday sponsor Tyres And More's FFF efforts in the Far North Queensland city. In conjunction with Townsville's Graduate School of Motoring, they have secured Strand Park on the beachfront for a FFF event beginning at 7am. They'll have vehicles on display, a sausage sizzle, attendance by the Mayor and local TV and radio coverage plus a display of 331 pairs of shoes, one for each road fatality in Queensland last year. Kirwan Tyres And More.
  
  
• Entertainer Pens Song For Road Safety
  Robbie Dunn is a Dublin born singer-songwriter who now calls Brisbane home. After losing a good friend in a traffic accident, he penned a song to draw attention to road safety. Listen to it here.
  
  
• Townsville Council To Launch Safety Program For Employees On Fatality Free Friday
  Debut of driver safety training program for council employees will take place on 28 May 2010 to coincide with FFF. Manager Troy Greenwood says Council is one of Townsville’s largest fleet owners and program will train drivers in techniques to be better operators and reduce the incidence of other work related driver issues such as back and neck complaints and fatigue. Read PDF press release...
  
  
• Children 'Disappear' In Road Safety Demonstration
  On Friday 21 May 2010, children 'disappeared' in a dramatic demonstration of vehicle blind spots. In Queensland alone, 18 children have been run over and killed, and a further 196 have been seriously injured, in low speed vehicle incidents in the past five years. About 20 Brisbane children ‘disappeared’ in the demonstration at Suncorp Stadium. More...
  
  
• Townsville To Stage 'Empty Shoes' Event For Fatality Free Friday
  Townsville is the latest city to join the Fatality Free Friday campaign on 28 May and is hosting its own “empty shoes” awareness event. This event is being hosted by the Graduate School of Motoring. More...
  
  
• Newcastle Driver Trainer Brings FFF Message To Students
  Newcastle road safety advocate and driver trainer Scott Holding is bringing the Fatality Free Friday message to Year 11 students at Warners Bay High School at 10.30am on Friday 28 May. More...
  
  
• Victoria's TAC Joins Fatality Free Friday Effort
  The Transport Accident Commission has joined with its Victorian road safety partners in supporting Fatality Free Friday on 28 May 2010 with the aim to make drivers consciously think about road safety and safe driving every time they are out on the road. More...
  
  
• Dramatic 'Empty Shoes' Displays in Two State Capitals
  The lives of 1500 Australians lost on the roads each year will be dramatically remembered with a special event taking place on Fatality Free Friday, May 28, 2010 in Brisbane and Melbourne. More...
  
  
• NSW Member for Davidson Gets Behind Fatality Free Friday
  MP Jonathan O'Dea assists with the World's Largest Dtiving Lesson at the Honda Australia Roadcraft Training Centre at St Ives and promotes FFF. Read his media release.
  
  
• The World's Largest Driving Lesson
  The launch event for Fatality Free Friday 2010 sets a new world record across locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, The Gold Coast, Brisbane, The Sunshine Coast and Townsville. More info to come...
  
  
• Organisation Well Underway For World’s Largest Driving Lesson
  Find out how you can join a world record attempt.
  
  
• 'Shoe' Message To Spread Interstate
  FFF Sponsor Suncorp Insurance will host a Brisbane CBD media call on 28 May - Fatality Free Friday - to draw attention to the number of lives lost on Australian roads.
  
  
• New Gold Alliance Partner in Monroe Australia
  Monroe Australia, the leading manufacturer and developer of shock absorbers, has joined Fatality Free Friday as a Gold Alliance Partner.
  
  
• Sponsors' Networking Lunch
  An alcohol-free event held at Mount Cotton, Queensland, on Thursday, 26 November 2009, this event brought together sponsors of Fatality Free Friday to review 2009 and look forward to the event in 2010.

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